The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 65

But his sister did not keep quiet for long, and tore and pulled at the rich brocade as if she wanted to destroy it, stamping about and shouting angrily.

Who acts: sister · What happens: not keep, pull, want, destroy, stamp, shout · To what, where: tore, chest

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 keep	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 keep	advmod
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 long	case
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tore	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tore	cc
12	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pulled	cc
14	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 brocade	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 brocade	det
17	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brocade	amod
18	brocade	brocade	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pulled	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 wanted	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 wanted	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wanted	nsubj
22	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pulled	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 destroy	mark
24	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wanted	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 destroy	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stamping	punct
27	stamping	stamp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 destroy	advcl
28	about	about	ADV	_	27 stamping	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shouting	cc
30	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 stamping	conj
31	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	30 shouting	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not keep	past · do-support	set's sister	tore	for long; quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	pull	past	set's sister not said here		at the rich brocade	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at brocade=Theme
3	want	past	sister			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	destroy not said to happen	to-infinitive	sister not said here	chest		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	stamp	gerund	sister not said here		about property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	shout speech: express	gerund	sister not said here		angrily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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