The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 39

A great rage took possession of his soul as he thought of the girl whom he had tried to ruin being after all so much better off than himself, and he vowed that he would work her ill.

Who acts: great rage, rage · What happens: take, think, try, ruin, vow, work · To what, where: possession, girl, soul · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great rage, rage), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rage	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rage	amod
3	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 soul	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 soul	nmod:poss
8	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 possession	nmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 thought	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 girl	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	obl
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 tried	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tried	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tried	aux
18	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thought	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 ruin	mark
20	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tried	xcomp
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 after	cop
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 ruin	obl
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 better	advmod
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 ruin	parataxis
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 better	compound:prt
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 himself	case
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 better	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 vowed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 vowed	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 vowed	nsubj
33	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 work	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 work	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 work	aux
37	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 vowed	ccomp
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 work	obj
39	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 work	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	a great rage	possession of rage's soul			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	rage			of the girl	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	try	past · perfect	rage				tree rules
4	ruin not said to happen	to-infinitive	rage not said here		after all		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	vow	past	rage				tree rules
6	work	would	rage	girl		ill property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent she=Material
7	possess			rage's soul			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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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