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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 woman | amod |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 live | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 live | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 live | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 live | advmod |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 woman | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 live | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 much | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 what | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 get | obj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 loss | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 loss | det |
| 21 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 what | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Maurice | case |
| 23 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 loss | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fear | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fear | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fear | det |
| 27 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 woman | conj |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 eating | mark |
| 29 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 fear | acl |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 grandchildren | nmod:poss |
| 31 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 grandchildren | amod |
| 32 | grandchildren | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 eating | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 died | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 died | nsubj |
| 35 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fear | parataxis |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 weeks | case |
| 37 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 weeks | nummod |
| 38 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 died | obl |
| 39 | after | after | ADP | _ | 41 dance | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 dance | det |
| 41 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 died | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | past · do-support | woman | Poor woman and the fear not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | woman not said here | much | as one of people | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent much=Beneficiary what=Theme | |||
| 3 | eat | gerund | the fear not said here | woman's own grandchildren | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandchild=Patient | ||||
| 4 | die | past | woman | after the dance; week | vn 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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