The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 84
When she heard how happy and prosperous they were, her heart was filled with envy and hatred, and she could think of nothing but how to bring some fresh misfortune on them.
Who acts: sister · What happens: hear, fill, think, bring · To what, where: adventures, fresh misfortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 prosperous | cc |
| 7 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 happy | conj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 filled | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filled | aux:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filled | punct |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filled | aux:pass |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 envy | case |
| 16 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hatred | cc |
| 18 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 envy | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 think | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 think | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 think | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 think | aux |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 nothing | case |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 think | obl |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 bring | cc |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 bring | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 bring | mark |
| 29 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 think | conj |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 misfortune | det |
| 31 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 misfortune | amod |
| 32 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bring | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bring | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | sister | happy property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | adventures = adventure | with envy and hatred | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with envy=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | could | sister | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | sister not said here | some fresh misfortune | on adventures = adventure | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent misfortune=Theme on they=Destination |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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