The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 90

There was no denying it was ugly, even the mother was forced to admit that to herself, though she only said it was 'large' and 'strong.' '

Who acts: blast, mother, duck · What happens: be, deny, force, admit, say · To what, where: mother, that, duck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blast, mother, duck), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 denying	det
4	denying	deny	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ugly	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ugly	cop
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 denying	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forced	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 mother	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forced	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forced	aux:pass
13	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 denying	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 admit	mark
15	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 forced	xcomp
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 admit	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 herself	case
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 admit	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 said	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 said	advmod
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 admit	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 large	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 large	cop
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 large	punct
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 said	ccomp
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 large	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 strong	cc
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 strong	punct
31	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 large	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 forced	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 forced	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 forced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past				there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	deny	gerund						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is	past	blast				ugly property	tree rules
4	force	past · passive		the mother				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	the mother not said here	that	duck			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Topic to herself=Recipient
6	say speech: assert	past	duck					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	blast				large property	tree rules
8	be		blast not said here					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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