The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 5
She could not bear the good qualities of this pretty girl, and the less because they made her own daughters appear the more odious.
Who acts: mother, qualities, own daughters · What happens: not bear, make, appear · To what, where: good qualities, odious
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, qualities, own daughters), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bear | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bear | advmod |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 qualities | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 qualities | amod |
| 7 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bear | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 qualities | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 less | det |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 made | advmod |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 made | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | parataxis |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 daughters | amod |
| 21 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 appear | nsubj |
| 22 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 odious | det |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 odious | advmod |
| 25 | odious | odious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 appear | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | could | mother | the good qualities of this pretty girl | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quality=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past | qualities = quality | less property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | appear | present | mother's own daughters | the odious | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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