The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 120
The poor girl loved him with her whole soul, and she was more unhappy than she had been before, when Burchard was only tormenting her body.
Who acts: poor girl, girl, Burchard · What happens: love, be, torment · To what, where: Guilbert, body
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor girl, girl, Burchard), 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 | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loved | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 soul | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 soul | nmod:poss |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 soul | amod |
| 9 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 unhappy | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 unhappy | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 unhappy | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 unhappy | cop |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 unhappy | advmod |
| 15 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 loved | parataxis |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 before | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 before | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 before | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 before | cop |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 unhappy | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tormenting | punct |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 tormenting | advmod |
| 23 | Burchard | Burchard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tormenting | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 tormenting | aux |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 tormenting | advmod |
| 26 | tormenting | torment | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 loved | advcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 body | nmod:poss |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tormenting | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the poor girl | Guilbert | with girl's whole soul | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | girl | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | girl | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | torment | past · progressive | Burchard | girl's body | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus body=Experiencer |
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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