The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 50
The old woman, who passed all her days in spinning yarn, which she sold at the nearest town, loved both the cat and the hen as her own children, and never contradicted them in any way; so it was their grace, and not hers, that the duckling would have to gain.
Who acts: old woman, woman, cat, duckling · What happens: pass, spin, sell, love, not contradict, be · To what, where: spinning yarn, nearest town, cat, hens, way, grace
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman, cat, duckling), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 days | det:predet |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 days | nmod:poss |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 yarn | case |
| 11 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 yarn | amod |
| 12 | yarn | yarn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sold | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sold | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sold | nsubj |
| 16 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 yarn | acl:relcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 town | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 town | det |
| 19 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 town | amod |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sold | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 loved | punct |
| 22 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sold | conj |
| 23 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 25 cat | cc:preconj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cat | det |
| 25 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 loved | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hen | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hen | det |
| 28 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cat | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 children | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 children | nmod:poss |
| 31 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 children | amod |
| 32 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 loved | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 contradicted | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 contradicted | cc |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 contradicted | advmod |
| 36 | contradicted | contradict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 contradicted | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 way | case |
| 39 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 way | det |
| 40 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 contradicted | obl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 grace | punct |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 grace | advmod |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 grace | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 grace | cop |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 grace | nmod:poss |
| 46 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | parataxis |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 hers | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 hers | cc |
| 49 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 hers | advmod |
| 50 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 passed | parataxis |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 have | punct |
| 52 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 56 have | mark |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 duckling | det |
| 54 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 have | nsubj |
| 55 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 have | aux |
| 56 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 passed | conj |
| 57 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 gain | mark |
| 58 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 have | xcomp |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the old woman | spinning yarn | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in yarn=Location | |||
| 2 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sell | past | woman | spinning yarn | the nearest town | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent which=Theme at town=Asset | |||
| 4 | love | past | woman not said here | the cat and the hen | as woman's own children | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | not contradict | past | the old woman not said here | hens = hen | any way | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is a | past | cat | hens's grace | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have | would | the duckling | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | gain | to-infinitive | the duckling not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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