The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 151

The mother of the Wind had pity on her and took her in, that she might rest a little.

Who acts: mother · What happens: have, take, rest · To what, where: pity, mother, little

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	6 had	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Wind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wind	det
5	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	obj
13	in	in	ADV	_	11 took	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rest	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 rest	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rest	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 rest	aux
18	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 took	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 little	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rest	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the mother of the Wind	pity		on wind	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
2	take	past	the mother of the Wind not said here		mother		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
3	rest	might	mother	a little			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location little=Theme

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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