The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 111

All the girl would do was to spend her days in dancing and playing with her friends; and for any use she was to her parents they might as well have no daughter at all.

Who acts: girl, parents · What happens: do, be, spend, play, have · To what, where: girl, daughter, all

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 (girl, parents), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 girl	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 spend	mark
8	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 was	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spend	obj
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spend	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 dancing	case
12	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 days	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 playing	cc
14	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 dancing	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 friends	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friends	nmod:poss
17	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 playing	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 use	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 use	cc
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 use	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 use	det
22	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	advcl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 parents	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 parents	cop
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 parents	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 parents	nmod:poss
27	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 use	nmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
30	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	32 have	cc
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 as	fixed
32	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 parents	parataxis
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 daughter	det
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 all	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 daughter	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	all girl					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	all girl not said here					tree rules
3	spend	to-infinitive	all girl not said here	girl		day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Asset
4	play	gerund	all girl not said here				with girl's friends	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with friend=Co-Agent
5	is	past	girl				to girl's parents	tree rules
6	have	might	parents = parent	no daughter	all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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