The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 25

But two years before, when Renelde’s mother was dying of a long illness, the Countess had not forgotten them, but had given help when they sorely needed it.

Who acts: mother, Countess, besides · What happens: die, not forget, give, need · To what, where: besides, help

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 (mother, Countess, besides), 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	_	11 dying	cc
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 before	obl:unmarked
4	before	before	ADV	_	11 dying	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dying	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 dying	mark
7	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mother	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Renelde	case
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dying	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dying	aux
11	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 forgotten	csubj:pass
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 illness	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 illness	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 illness	amod
15	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dying	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dying	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Countess	det
18	Countess	Countess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 forgotten	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 forgotten	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 forgotten	advmod
21	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 forgotten	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 given	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 given	cc
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 given	aux
26	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 forgotten	parataxis
27	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 given	obj
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 needed	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 needed	nsubj
30	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	31 needed	advmod
31	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 given	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 needed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	past · progressive	Renelde's mother		of a long illness; before property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of illness=Causer
2	not forget	past · perfect	the Countess	besides = beside		tree rules
3	give	past · perfect		help		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme
4	need	past	besides = beside	help	sorely property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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