The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 48

Now the woman saw she would gain nothing by being sulky, so she pretended to be very glad to have got rid of her husband; but all the while she was trying to invent a plan to deliver herself from the turtle.

Who acts: woman · What happens: see, gain, be, pretend, get, try · To what, where: nothing, plan, woman, turtle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gain	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 gain	aux
7	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	ccomp
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 gain	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 sulky	case
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sulky	cop
11	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nothing	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pretended	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 pretended	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pretended	nsubj
15	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	19 glad	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 glad	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 glad	advmod
19	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pretended	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	22 got	mark
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 got	aux
22	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 glad	advcl
23	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 got	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 husband	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 husband	nmod:poss
26	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rid	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 trying	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 trying	cc
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 trying	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 all	det
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 trying	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 trying	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 trying	aux
34	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 saw	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 invent	mark
36	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 trying	xcomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 plan	det
38	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 invent	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 deliver	mark
40	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 plan	acl
41	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 deliver	obj
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 turtle	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 turtle	det
44	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 deliver	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the woman			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	gain	would	woman	nothing				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
3	is	gerund					sulky property	tree rules
4	pretend	past	woman					tree rules
5	is	to-infinitive	woman not said here				glad property	tree rules
6	get	to-infinitive · perfect	woman not said here				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	try	past · progressive	woman					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	invent not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here	a plan				vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result
9	deliver	to-infinitive	woman not said here	woman	the turtle			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent herself=Theme from turtle=Initial_Location

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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