The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 201

So he showed her the two laurels which had helped him, and she, like a prudent girl, thinking they gave him too much advantage over his wife, cut them off at the root and threw them in the fire.

Who acts: lover, two laurels, laurel · What happens: show, help, think, give, cut off, throw · To what, where: two laurels, Lina, lover, much advantage, laurel, root

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: who acts (lover, two laurels, laurel), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 showed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 laurels	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 laurels	nummod
7	laurels	laurel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 showed	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 helped	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 helped	aux
10	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 laurels	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 helped	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 girl	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 girl	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 girl	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 girl	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 girl	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 girl	det
18	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 girl	amod
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thinking	punct
21	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 showed	conj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	nsubj
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	iobj
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 advantage	amod
27	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 wife	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cut	punct
32	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 gave	advcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cut	obj
34	off	off	ADP	_	32 cut	compound:prt
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 root	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 root	det
37	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cut	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 threw	cc
39	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gave	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 threw	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 fire	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 fire	det
43	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 threw	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	past	lover	the two laurels	Lina			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient laurel=Topic
2	help	past · perfect	the two laurels		lover			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	think speech: other	gerund	lover not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	laurel	much advantage	lover		over lover's wife	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient advantage=Theme
5	cut off	infinitive	laurel not said here	laurel		the root		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality
6	throw	past	laurel not said here	laurel		the fire		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in fire=Destination

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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