The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 70

And the mother, who did not trouble to conceal her wishes, turned at once to the wall.

Who acts: mother · What happens: do, conceal, turn, wish · To what, where: trouble, wishes, mother, wall

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 mother	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mother	acl:relcl
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 trouble	advmod
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 conceal	mark
10	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 did	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wishes	nmod:poss
12	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 conceal	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
14	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mother	acl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 turned	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 wall	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wall	det
19	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	the mother	trouble		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality
2	conceal	to-infinitive	the mother not said here	mother's wishes		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
3	turn	participle		the mother not said here	the wall	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at once=Source to wall=Trajectory
4	wish		mother			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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