The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 12

However, having considered what a grief it would be to her to see them perish with hunger, she at last consented, and went to bed all in tears.

Who acts: grief, children · What happens: consider, be, see, perish, consent, go · To what, where: grief, children, wife, tears

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 (grief, children), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 considered	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 considered	aux
4	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 considered	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 grief	det
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 considered	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 her	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 her	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 her	cop
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 considered	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 considered	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 see	xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 hunger	case
18	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 perish	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 consented	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 consented	nsubj:pass
21	at	at	SCONJ	_	23 consented	mark
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 consented	amod
23	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 considered	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 consented	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 bed	case
28	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	obl
29	all	all	ADV	_	31 tears	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 tears	case
31	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 went	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consider	gerund · perfect		a grief		however property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme grief=Attribute
2	is	would	grief			to wife	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive		children = child			tree rules
4	perish	infinitive	children = child not said here			with hunger	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	consent	participle · passive		wife			tree rules
6	go	past			tears	to bed	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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