The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 120

The mother of the Moon, when she saw her sad plight, felt a great pity for her, and took her in and nursed and tended her.

Who acts: mother · What happens: see, feel, take in, nurse, tend, plight · To what, where: sad plight, great pity, mother

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 plight	nmod:poss
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plight	amod
12	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pity	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pity	amod
17	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 felt	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 felt	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	22 took	compound:prt
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 nursed	cc
26	nursed	nurse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 took	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tended	cc
28	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tended	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the mother of the Moon	mother's sad plight			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plight=Stimulus
2	feel	past	the mother of the Moon not said here	a great pity		for mother	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pity=Location for she=Theme
3	take in	past			mother		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
4	nurse	participle					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
5	tend	past		mother			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	plight		mother				nom plight «state transitive»: poss=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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