The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 63

She began to wish to try them for herself, and turned her steps in the direction of the garden.

Who acts: mother · What happens: begin, wish, try, turn, step · To what, where: tales, steps

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wish	mark
4	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 try	mark
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 try	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 herself	case
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 try	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turned	cc
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 steps	nmod:poss
14	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turned	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 direction	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 direction	det
17	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 garden	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 garden	det
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 direction	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	mother			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	wish	to-infinitive	mother not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here	tales = tale	for mother	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for herself=Attribute
4	turn	past	mother not said here	mother's steps	in the direction of the garden	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent step=Patient in direction=Topic
5	step		mother			nom step «act transitive»: 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 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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