The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 69

Now his mother was very sorrowful when she heard of this, but she knew quite well that if she tried to stop his having his own way he would only grow more determined to get it.

Who acts: mother, Erin, widow · What happens: be, hear, know, try, stop, have · To what, where: own way, way

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Erin, widow), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sorrowful	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sorrowful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sorrowful	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sorrowful	advmod
6	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 heard	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sorrowful	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 this	case
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 heard	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 knew	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sorrowful	conj
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 knew	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 tried	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 tried	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tried	nsubj
21	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 knew	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 stop	mark
23	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tried	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 having	nsubj
25	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 stop	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 way	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 way	amod
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 having	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 grow	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 grow	aux
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 grow	advmod
32	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 way	acl:relcl
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 determined	advmod
34	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 grow	xcomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 get	mark
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 determined	xcomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 get	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sorrowful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	widow's mother		now	sorrowful property	tree rules
2	hear	past	Erin			of this	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus
3	know	past	Erin			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	try a condition, not said to happen	past	Erin				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	Erin not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	have	gerund	widow	widow's own way			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
7	grow	would	widow	widow's own way not said here		determined property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
8	get	to-infinitive	widow not said here	way			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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