The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 54

She would neither eat nor drink, nor take any notice of all the beautiful dresses her parents bought for her.

Who acts: Kisa, beautiful, parents · What happens: eat, drink, take, dress, buy · To what, where: notice

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kisa, beautiful, parents), 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	4 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	neither	neither	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 drink	cc
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eat	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 take	cc
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eat	conj
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 notice	det
11	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 dresses	mark
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 dresses	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beautiful	det
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dresses	nsubj
16	dresses	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 notice	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 parents	nmod:poss
18	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bought	nsubj
19	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dresses	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bought	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	would	Kisa		neither property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	infinitive	Kisa not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	infinitive	Kisa not said here	any notice		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
4	dress	present	the beautiful			tree rules
5	buy	past	Kisa's parents		for Kisa	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for she=Beneficiary

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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