The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 148
The nurse had taken all the pains imaginable to deck out her daughter.
What happens: take, deck out · To what, where: nurse, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nurse | det |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 pains | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pains | det |
| 7 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 imaginable | nsubj |
| 8 | imaginable | imaginable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taken | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 deck | mark |
| 10 | deck | deck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 imaginable | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 deck | compound:prt |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deck | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | the nurse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | deck out | to-infinitive | Rosette's daughter | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme daughter=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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