The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 150

But she was so ugly that nothing could make her look nice, and what was worse, she was sulky and ill-tempered, and did nothing but grumble all the time.

Who acts: Rosette, nothing · What happens: be, make, look, temper, do, grumble · To what, where: Rosette, nothing

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: who acts (Rosette, nothing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 ugly	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ugly	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ugly	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 ugly	advmod
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 make	mark
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 make	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ugly	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
12	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 worse	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 worse	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 worse	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 worse	cop
17	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 ugly	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sulky	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sulky	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sulky	cop
21	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 worse	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tempered	cc
23	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tempered	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 ill	punct
25	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 sulky	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 did	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 did	cc
28	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 worse	conj
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 did	obj
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 grumble	cc
31	grumble	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 worse	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 time	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 time	det
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grumble	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ugly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rosette			ugly property	tree rules
2	make	could	nothing	Rosette			tree rules
3	look	infinitive	Rosette not said here			nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past				bad property	tree rules
5	is	past	Rosette			sulky property	tree rules
6	temper	participle	Rosette not said here				tree rules
7	do	past		nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
8	grumble speech: other	present			time		vn complain-37.8 «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 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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