The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 5

As people naturally love their own likeness, this mother even doted on her eldest daughter and at the same time had a horrible aversion for the youngest--she made her eat in the kitchen and work continually.

Who acts: people, mother, living · What happens: love, dote, have, make, eat · To what, where: own likeness, horrible aversion, living, kitchen

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 (people, mother, living), 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	SCONJ	_	4 love	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
3	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	4 love	advmod
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mother	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 likeness	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 likeness	amod
7	likeness	likeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 love	punct
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 mother	det
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doted	nsubj
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 doted	advmod
12	doted	dote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 daughter	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 daughter	amod
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doted	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obl
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 doted	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 aversion	det
24	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 aversion	amod
25	aversion	aversion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 youngest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 youngest	det
28	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 had	obl
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	nsubj
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 doted	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	obj
33	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 made	xcomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 kitchen	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 kitchen	det
36	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eat	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 work	cc
38	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 kitchen	conj
39	continually	continually	ADV	_	38 work	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 doted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	people	people's own likeness			naturally property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer likeness=Stimulus
2	dote	past	this mother				on mother's eldest daughter	tree rules
3	have	past	this mother not said here	a horrible aversion		time	for the youngest	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aversion=Patient
4	make	past	mother	living				tree rules
5	eat	infinitive	living not said here		the kitchen and work			vn eat-39.1-1 «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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