The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 148

The poor woman nearly died of these hardships, but she kept a brave heart, and at length she reached an enormous cave in the side of a mountain.

Who acts: poor woman, woman · What happens: die, keep, reach · To what, where: brave heart, enormous cave, length

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 (poor woman, woman), 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	3 woman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 died	advmod
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 hardships	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 hardships	det
8	hardships	hardship	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 died	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 kept	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 heart	det
14	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 heart	amod
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 reached	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 reached	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 length	case
19	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reached	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reached	nsubj
21	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	conj
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cave	det
23	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cave	amod
24	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reached	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 side	det
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reached	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 mountain	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mountain	det
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 side	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	past	the poor woman			of this hardships; nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hardship=Causer
2	keep	past	woman	a brave heart			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
3	reach	past	woman	a enormous cave	length	in the side of a mountain	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cave=Theme at length=Asset

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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