The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 110

As she was an only child, and very pretty besides, they never could make up their minds to punish her for her faults or to teach her nice manners; and as for work-- she laughed in her mother's face if she asked her to help cook the dinner or to wash the plates.

Who acts: woman, words · What happens: be, not make up, punish, teach, laugh, ask · To what, where: only child, minds, woman, nice manners, work, face

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, words), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	6 child	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 child	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 child	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 make	cc
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 pretty	advmod
10	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	11 besides	advmod
11	besides	besides	ADV	_	16 make	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 make	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 make	advmod
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 child	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 make	compound:prt
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 minds	nmod:poss
19	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 make	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 punish	mark
21	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 make	advcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 punish	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 faults	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 faults	nmod:poss
25	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 punish	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 teach	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 teach	mark
28	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 punish	conj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 manners	nmod:poss
30	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 manners	amod
31	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	28 teach	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 work	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 work	cc
34	as	as	ADV	_	36 work	advmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 work	case
36	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 child	parataxis
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 laughed	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 laughed	nsubj
39	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 work	acl:relcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	44 face	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 mother	nmod:poss
42	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 face	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 mother	case
44	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 laughed	obl
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 asked	mark
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 asked	nsubj
47	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 laughed	advcl
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 asked	iobj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 help	mark
50	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 asked	xcomp
51	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 help	xcomp
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 dinner	det
53	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 cook	obj
54	or	or	CCONJ	_	56 wash	cc
55	to	to	PART	_	56 wash	mark
56	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 cook	conj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 plates	det
58	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 wash	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	woman	a only child				tree rules
2	not make up	could	words = word	words's minds			besides property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
3	punish	to-infinitive	words = word not said here	woman			for woman's faults	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Patient for fault=Theme
4	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	words = word not said here	woman's nice manners				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent manners=Recipient
5	laugh	past	woman	work not said here		woman's mother's face		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
6	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	past	woman		mother			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
7	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	cook not said to happen	infinitive	woman not said here	the dinner				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
9	wash	to-infinitive	woman not said here	the plates				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient
10	mind		words = word					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
11	fault		woman					nom fault «act transitive»: 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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