The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 162

She was quite worn out with weariness and hunger, and even her staff was no further help to her, for in her many wanderings it had become quite blunted.

Who acts: staff, mother · What happens: wear out, be, become, blunt, wander · To what, where: mother, further help

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 (staff, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worn	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worn	aux:pass
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 worn	advmod
4	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 worn	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 weariness	case
7	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worn	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hunger	cc
9	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weariness	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 help	cc
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 staff	advmod
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 staff	nmod:poss
14	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 help	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 help	cop
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 help	det
17	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 help	amod
18	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worn	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 help	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 become	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	26 wanderings	case
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 wanderings	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wanderings	nmod:poss
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wanderings	amod
26	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 become	obl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 become	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 become	aux
29	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 worn	conj
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 blunted	advmod
31	blunted	blunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 become	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wear out	past · passive		mother		with weariness and hunger	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	is a	past	mother's staff	no further help	mother		tree rules
3	become	past · perfect	staff			for mother's many wanderings	tree rules
4	blunt	participle	staff not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	wander		mother				nom wandering «act 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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