The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 106
She made them into a salad, which tasted so good that her longing for the forbidden food was greater than ever.
Who acts: wife, salad, longing · What happens: make, taste, forbid, be, long · To what, where: leaves, salad
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, salad, longing), 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 | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 salad | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 salad | det |
| 6 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tasted | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 tasted | nsubj |
| 9 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 salad | acl:relcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 good | advmod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tasted | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 greater | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 longing | nmod:poss |
| 14 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 greater | nsubj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 food | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 food | det |
| 17 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 food | amod |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 longing | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 greater | cop |
| 20 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 good | advcl |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 ever | case |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 greater | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | wife | leaves = leaf | a salad | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into salad=Product | |||
| 2 | taste | past | a salad | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | forbid | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | wife's longing for the forbidden food | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | long | wife | for the forbidden food | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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