The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 158

But she went on ordering them all about, and for no fault at all would give slaps and pinches to everyone she could reach.

Who acts: bride · What happens: go, order, give, reach · To what, where: ladies, slaps, everyone

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 (bride), 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	_	3 went	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 ordering	mark
5	ordering	order	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ordering	obj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 about	advmod
8	about	about	ADV	_	5 ordering	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 give	cc
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 fault	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 fault	det
13	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 fault	nmod
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
18	slaps	slap	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 give	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pinches	cc
20	pinches	pinch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 slaps	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 everyone	case
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 give	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 reach	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 reach	aux
25	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 everyone	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	bride				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	order	gerund	bride not said here		ladies = lady	about property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	give	would	bride not said here	slaps and pinches	everyone	for no fault at all	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent slap=Theme for fault=Asset to everyone=Recipient
4	reach	could	bride				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «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 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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