The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 9
And the mother, who did not know how to get rid of him, gave in.
Who acts: mother · What happens: not know, get, give in · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. 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 | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mother | conj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 get | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 know | ccomp |
| 12 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 get | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rid | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 gave | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | give in | past | the mother | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «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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