The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 2

Her mother was excessively fond of her; and her grandmother doted on her still more.

Who acts: mother, grandmother · What happens: be, dote · To what, where: more

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Red Riding Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, grandmother), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fond	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fond	cop
4	excessively	excessively	ADV	_	5 fond	advmod
5	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fond	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 doted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 doted	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 grandmother	nmod:poss
11	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doted	nsubj
12	doted	dote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fond	conj
13	on	on	SCONJ	_	16 more	mark
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 more	nmod:poss
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 doted	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	creature's mother					of creature; excessively, fond property	tree rules
2	dote	past	creature's grandmother	creature's more					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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