The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 17
The woman hated her stepdaughter from the bottom of her heart, and did all she could to make her life miserable.
Who acts: woman · What happens: hate, do, make · To what, where: stepdaughter, bottom, all, life
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hated | nsubj |
| 3 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hated | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 bottom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottom | det |
| 8 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hated | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bottom | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 did | cc |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hated | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 did | obj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 all | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 did | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 make | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | the woman | woman's stepdaughter | the bottom of woman's heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stepdaughter=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | do | past | the woman not said here | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the woman not said here | woman's life | miserable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product |
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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