The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 18

But Renelde, who was betrothed to a young wood-cutter called Guilbert, had no intention of obeying the Count, and she had, besides, to take care of her grandmother.

Who acts: Renelde, intention · What happens: betroth, call, have, obey, take · To what, where: Renelde, young wood cutter, intention, Count, besides, care · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Renelde, intention), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
2	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 betrothed	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 betrothed	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 betrothed	aux:pass
6	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Renelde	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	12 cutter	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cutter	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cutter	amod
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cutter	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 wood	punct
12	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 betrothed	obl
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cutter	acl
14	Guilbert	Guilbert	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 called	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Renelde	punct
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 intention	det
18	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 obeying	mark
20	obeying	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 intention	acl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Count	det
22	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 obeying	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 besides	punct
28	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 take	mark
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	conj
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 grandmother	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 grandmother	nmod:poss
35	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	betroth	past · passive		Renelde	a young wood cutter		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to cutter=Recipient
2	call	participle		a young wood cutter not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	Renelde	no intention			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient
4	obey	gerund	no intention not said here	the Count			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent count=Theme
5	have	past	Renelde	besides			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beside=Patient
6	take	to-infinitive	Renelde not said here	care		of Renelde's grandmother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of grandmother=Initial_Location

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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