The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 38

She was one of those people who always despise their own family and surroundings, and take pleasure in thinking that they themselves are made of finer material than the rest of the world.

Who acts: mother, people · What happens: be, despise, take, think, make · To what, where: one, own family, pleasure, surroundings · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, people), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 despise	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 despise	advmod
9	despise	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 people	acl:relcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 family	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 family	amod
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 despise	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 surroundings	cc
14	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 family	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 take	cc
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 despise	conj
18	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
19	in	in	SCONJ	_	20 thinking	mark
20	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 take	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 made	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 made	nsubj:pass
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	22 they	nmod:unmarked
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 made	aux:pass
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 thinking	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 material	case
27	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 material	amod
28	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obl
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 rest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rest	det
31	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 material	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rest	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mother	one	of that people	tree rules
2	despise	present	that people	people's own family and surroundings	always property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus
3	take	infinitive	that people not said here	pleasure		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme
4	think speech: other	gerund	that people not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	make	present · passive		surroundings	of finer material than the rest of the world	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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