The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 5

Every time that she heard of another misdeed of her husband’s she secretly went to repair the evil, which caused her name to be blessed throughout the whole country-side.

Who acts: Quesnoy, evil · What happens: hear, go, repair, cause, bless, name · To what, where: husband, evil, name

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 (Quesnoy, evil), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl:unmarked
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 heard	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 misdeed	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 misdeed	det
8	misdeed	misdeed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 husband	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 misdeed	nmod
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 husband	case
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
14	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 husband	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 repair	mark
17	repair	repair	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 went	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 evil	det
19	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 repair	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 caused	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 caused	nsubj
22	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 evil	acl:relcl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 name	nmod:poss
24	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 caused	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 blessed	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 blessed	aux:pass
27	blessed	bless	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 caused	advcl
28	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	33 side	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 side	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 side	amod
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 side	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 country	punct
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blessed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Quesnoy		time	of another misdeed of Quesnoy's husband	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of misdeed=Stimulus
2	go	past	Quesnoy	Quesnoy's husband not said here		secretly property	tree rules
3	repair	to-infinitive	Quesnoy not said here	the evil			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent evil=Patient
4	cause	past	the evil	Quesnoy's name			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition name=Patient
5	bless	to-infinitive · passive	the evil not said here		throughout the whole country side		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»
6	name		Quesnoy				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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