The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 28

For several days she felt so tired and unhappy that she could hardly get through her work, and to make matters worse Denis scarcely ever came near her.

Who acts: Tephany · What happens: feel, get, make, come, work · To what, where: work, matters

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tephany), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 felt	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 felt	nsubj
5	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 tired	advmod
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 felt	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 unhappy	cc
9	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tired	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 get	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
13	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unhappy	advcl
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 work	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 work	nmod:poss
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 felt	conj
22	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 make	obj
23	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 Denis	amod
24	Denis	Denis	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
25	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 came	advmod
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 make	advcl
28	near	near	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Tephany			day	tired property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	get	could	Tephany		Tephany's work		hardly property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through work=Destination
3	make	to-infinitive	Tephany not said here	matters				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset matter=Beneficiary denis=Product
4	come	past	Tephany not said here			ever	near Tephany; scarcely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location
5	work		Tephany					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 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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