The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 58
Her mother loves her so dearly that she has no ease but in her presence, and she will give her to no one in marriage.
Who acts: mother, cry · What happens: love, have, give · To what, where: cry, ease, mother
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, cry), 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 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loves | nsubj |
| 3 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loves | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 dearly | advmod |
| 6 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 3 loves | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 has | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 loves | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 ease | det |
| 11 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 presence | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 presence | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 presence | nmod:poss |
| 15 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ease | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 loves | parataxis |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 marriage | case |
| 26 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 one | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | cry's mother | cry | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have | present | cry | no ease but cry's presence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ease=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | future | cry | mother | to no one in marriage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to one=Recipient |
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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