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The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 56

Then the three little men consulted what they should do to her, because she was so bad and had such an evil, covetous heart, that she grudged everybody their good fortune.

Who acts: three little men, brambles, first · What happens: consult, do, be, have, grudge · To what, where: first, evil, everybody

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 (three little men, brambles, first), 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

advmoddetnummodamodnsubjobjnsubjauxccompcaseoblpunctmarknsubjcopadvmodconjccconjdet:predetdetobjpunctamodconjpunctmarknsubjconjobjnmod:possamodobjpunctrootThenADVtheDETthreeNUMlittleADJmenNOUNconsultedVERBwhatPRONtheyPRONshouldAUXdoVERBtoADPherPRON,PUNCTbecauseSCONJshePRONwasAUXsoADVbadADJandCCONJhadVERBsuchDETanDETevilNOUN,PUNCTcovetousADJheartNOUN,PUNCTthatSCONJshePRONgrudgedVERBeverybodyPRONtheirPRONgoodADJfortuneNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem6 consultedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 mendet
3threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card5 mennummod
4littlelittleADJDegree=Pos5 menamod
5menmanNOUNNumber=Plur6 consultednsubj
6consultedconsultVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7whatwhatPRONPronType=Int10 doobj
8theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 donsubj
9shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin10 doaux
10dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf6 consultedccomp
11totoADP_12 hercase
12hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 doobl
13,,PUNCT_18 badpunct
14becausebecauseSCONJ_18 badmark
15sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 badnsubj
16wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 badcop
17sosoADV_18 badadvmod
18badbadADJDegree=Pos6 consultedconj
19andandCCONJ_20 hadcc
20hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 consultedconj
21suchsuchDETPronType=Ind23 evildet:predet
22anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 evildet
23evilevilNOUNNumber=Sing20 hadobj
24,,PUNCT_26 heartpunct
25covetouscovetousADJDegree=Pos26 heartamod
26heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing23 evilconj
27,,PUNCT_30 grudgedpunct
28thatthatSCONJ_30 grudgedmark
29sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 grudgednsubj
30grudgedgrudgeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 consultedconj
31everybodyeverybodyPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot30 grudgedobj
32theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 fortunenmod:poss
33goodgoodADJDegree=Pos34 fortuneamod
34fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing30 grudgedobj
35..PUNCT_6 consultedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1consultpastthe three little menthenvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2doshouldbrambles = bramblefirstvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3ispastfirstbad propertytree rules
4havepastthe three little men not said heresuch evil and covetous heartvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Patient
5grudgepastfirsteverybodytree rules

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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