The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 137

Lina’s sisters had seen her talking to the little garden boy, and jeered at her for it.

What happens: see, talk, jeer · To what, where: sisters

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Lina	Lina	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sisters	nmod:poss
2	’s	's	PART	_	1 Lina	case
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seen	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	obj
7	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 seen	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 boy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	compound
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 jeered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 jeered	cc
15	jeered	jeer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 jeered	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 jeered	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect · passive	Lina's sisters		tree rules
2	talk	gerund		to the little garden boy	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to boy=Co-Agent
3	jeer	past		at Lina; for XII	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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