The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 197

She hadn’t the least idea of how to spin straw into gold, and became at last so miserable that she began to cry.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: not have, spin, become, begin, cry · To what, where: least idea, straw, gold

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 had	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 idea	det
5	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 idea	amod
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 spin	mark
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 spin	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 spin	mark
10	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 idea	acl
11	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spin	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 gold	case
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spin	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 became	cc
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 became	xcomp
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 miserable	advmod
20	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 became	xcomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 began	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 miserable	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 cry	mark
25	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not have	past	daughter	the least idea			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
2	spin	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	straw	gold		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent straw=Theme into gold=Trajectory
3	become	past	daughter not said here			last, miserable property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	begin	past	daughter				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	daughter not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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