The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 45
As for the sister, she made herself so much hated that her own mother turned her off; and the miserable wretch, having wandered about a good while without finding anybody to take her in, went to a corner of the wood, and there died.
Who acts: mother, own mother, miserable wretch, anybody · What happens: make, hate, turn off, have, wander, find · To what, where: mother, sister, anybody, corner
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, own mother, miserable wretch, anybody), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 sister | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sister | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 hated | advmod |
| 11 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 turned | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mother | amod |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hated | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 turned | compound:prt |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 went | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wretch | det |
| 22 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wretch | amod |
| 23 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 went | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 having | punct |
| 25 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 wretch | acl |
| 26 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 having | xcomp |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 30 while | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 while | det |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 while | amod |
| 30 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wandered | obl |
| 31 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 32 finding | mark |
| 32 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 wandered | advcl |
| 33 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 finding | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 finding | xcomp |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 take | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wretch | punct |
| 39 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 corner | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 corner | det |
| 42 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 went | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 wood | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 wood | det |
| 45 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 corner | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 died | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 died | cc |
| 48 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 died | advmod |
| 49 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | mother | mother | as the sister | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Product | |||
| 2 | hate | past | mother not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | turn off | past | mother's own mother | sister | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | the miserable wretch not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wander | participle | the miserable wretch not said here | while | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | gerund | the miserable wretch not said here | anybody | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent anybody=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | take in | to-infinitive | anybody not said here | mother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 8 | go | past | the miserable wretch | a corner of the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to corner=Initial_Location | ||||
| 9 | die | past | mother not said here | there | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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