The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 89

And her mother-in-law left off her work to come and scold her, and to tell her that she would kill herself if she did such foolish things.

Who acts: law, mother, woman · What happens: leave off, come, scold, tell, kill, do · To what, where: work, woman, such foolish things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (law, mother, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 tell	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 law	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 law	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 in	punct
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	nmod
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 law	acl
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 work	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 work	nmod:poss
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 left	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 scold	cc
15	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 scold	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tell	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 tell	mark
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 kill	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kill	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 kill	aux
25	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tell	ccomp
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 kill	obj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 did	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 did	nsubj
29	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 kill	advcl
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
31	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 did	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	leave off	participle	law not said here	woman's work		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
2	come	to-infinitive	law not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scold	infinitive	law not said here	woman		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	woman's mother in law		woman	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	kill	would	woman	woman		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
6	do a condition, not said to happen	past	woman	such foolish things		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
7	work		woman			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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