The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 30

Her parents were very proud of her, and spared no pains to teach her all she ought to know.

Who acts: parents, wife · What happens: be, spare, teach, know · To what, where: pains, all

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, wife), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 proud	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 proud	advmod
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proud	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spared	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 spared	cc
10	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 pains	det
12	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 spared	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 teach	mark
14	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 spared	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 all	nsubj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 teach	obj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
18	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 know	aux
19	to	to	PART	_	20 know	mark
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 all	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	wife's parents		of wife; proud property	tree rules
2	spare	past		no pains		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset
3	teach speech: other	to-infinitive		all		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Recipient
4	know	ought	wife			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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