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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 76

Poor woman, she did not live to get as much as one of them; for what through the loss of Maurice, and the fear of eating her own grandchildren, she died in three weeks after the dance.

Who acts: woman, fear · What happens: not live, get, eat, die · To what, where: Poor woman, much, own grandchildren

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, fear), 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

amodpunctnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclmarkxcompadvmodobjcasenmodcasenmodpunctcaseobjcasedetnmodcasenmodpunctccdetconjmarkaclnmod:possamodobjpunctnsubjparataxiscasenummodoblcasedetoblpunctrootPoorADJwomanNOUN,PUNCTshePRONdidAUXnotPARTliveVERBtoPARTgetVERBasADVmuchADJasADPoneNUMofADPthemPRON;PUNCTforADPwhatPRONthroughADPtheDETlossNOUNofADPMauricePROPN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETfearNOUNofSCONJeatingVERBherPRONownADJgrandchildrenNOUN,PUNCTshePRONdiedVERBinADPthreeNUMweeksNOUNafterADPtheDETdanceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PoorpoorADJDegree=Pos2 womanamod
2womanwomanNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
3,,PUNCT_7 livepunct
4sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 livensubj
5diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 liveaux
6notnotPARTPolarity=Neg7 liveadvmod
7liveliveVERBVerbForm=Inf2 womanacl:relcl
8totoPART_9 getmark
9getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf7 livexcomp
10asasADV_11 muchadvmod
11muchmuchADJDegree=Pos9 getobj
12asasADP_13 onecase
13oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card11 muchnmod
14ofofADP_15 themcase
15themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs13 onenmod
16;;PUNCT_18 whatpunct
17forforADP_18 whatcase
18whatwhatPRONPronType=Int9 getobj
19throughthroughADP_21 losscase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 lossdet
21losslossNOUNNumber=Sing18 whatnmod
22ofofADP_23 Mauricecase
23MauriceMauricePROPNNumber=Sing21 lossnmod
24,,PUNCT_27 fearpunct
25andandCCONJ_27 fearcc
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 feardet
27fearfearNOUNNumber=Sing2 womanconj
28ofofSCONJ_29 eatingmark
29eatingeatVERBVerbForm=Ger27 fearacl
30herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 grandchildrennmod:poss
31ownownADJDegree=Pos32 grandchildrenamod
32grandchildrengrandchildNOUNNumber=Plur29 eatingobj
33,,PUNCT_35 diedpunct
34sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 diednsubj
35dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 fearparataxis
36ininADP_38 weekscase
37threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card38 weeksnummod
38weeksweekNOUNNumber=Plur35 diedobl
39afterafterADP_41 dancecase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 dancedet
41dancedanceNOUNNumber=Sing35 diedobl
42..PUNCT_2 womanpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not livepast · do-supportwomanPoor woman and the fear not said heretree rules
2getto-infinitivewoman not said heremuchas one of peoplevn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent much=Beneficiary what=Theme
3eatgerundthe fear not said herewoman's own grandchildrenvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandchild=Patient
4diepastwomanafter the dance; weekvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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