The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 11

In vain did her husband represent to her their extreme poverty: she would not consent to it; she was indeed poor, but she was their mother.

Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: do, represent, not consent, be · To what, where: vain, poverty, mother

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 vain	case
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	obl
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 represent	nsubj
6	represent	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 poverty	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 poverty	nmod:poss
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 poverty	nmod:poss
10	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 poverty	amod
11	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 represent	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 consent	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 consent	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 consent	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 consent	advmod
16	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 represent	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 consent	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 poor	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 poor	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 poor	cop
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	23 poor	advmod
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mother	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 mother	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 mother	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 mother	cop
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 poor	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past				vain		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	represent	present	wife's husband				to wife's extreme poverty	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to poverty=Attribute
3	not consent	would	wife		poverty			vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme
4	is	past	wife				indeed, poor property	tree rules
5	is a	past	wife	children's mother				tree rules

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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