The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 163

She almost gave up in despair, but made one last great effort, and suddenly in a thicket she came upon the sort of house that the mother of the Wind had described.

Who acts: mother, thicket · What happens: give up, make, come, describe, sort · To what, where: despair, one last great effort, sort, mother, house

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, thicket), 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	3 gave	nsubj
2	almost	almost	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 gave	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 despair	case
6	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	parataxis
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 effort	nummod
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 effort	amod
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 effort	amod
13	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	19 thicket	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 thicket	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thicket	det
19	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	conj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 sort	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sort	det
24	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 house	case
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sort	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 described	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mother	det
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 described	nsubj:pass
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Wind	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Wind	det
32	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 mother	nmod
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 described	aux
34	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 house	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give up	past	mother		despair	almost property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past		one last great effort			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product
3	come	past	a thicket		the sort of house		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sort=Location
4	describe	past · perfect · passive		the mother of the Wind			tree rules
5	sort			house			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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