The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 89

However, she loved Desiree too much to let her suffer more than could be helped, and it was she who guided Eglantine to the place where the white doe was standing, cropping the grass which was her dinner.

Who acts: mother, home, white doe, grass · What happens: love, let, suffer, help, be, guide · To what, where: Desiree, mother, more, Eglantine, place, grass

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, home, white doe, grass), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 loved	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loved	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 let	mark
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 much	acl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 suffer	obj
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 helped	mark
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 helped	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 helped	aux:pass
16	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 more	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 guided	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 guided	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 she	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 she	cop
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 guided	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 guided	nsubj
23	guided	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loved	conj
24	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 guided	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 place	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 place	det
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 guided	obl
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 standing	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 doe	det
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 doe	amod
31	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 standing	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 standing	aux
33	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 place	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cropping	punct
35	cropping	crop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 guided	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 grass	det
37	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cropping	obj
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 dinner	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 dinner	cop
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 dinner	nmod:poss
41	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 grass	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	past	mother	Desiree		however property	tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive		mother			tree rules
3	suffer	infinitive	mother not said here	more			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
4	help	could · passive	mother not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»
5	is a	past	home	mother			tree rules
6	guide	past	mother	Eglantine	the place		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eglantine=Theme to place=Destination
7	stand	past · progressive	the white doe				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	crop	gerund	mother not said here	the grass and mother's dinner			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
9	is a	past	the grass and mother's dinner	mother's dinner			tree rules

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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