The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 21

She did her best to please the old woman, and shook her bed with such a will that the feathers flew about like snow-flakes; so she led a very easy life, was never scolded, and lived on the fat of the land.

Who acts: girl, feathers · What happens: do, please, shake, fly, lead, not scold · To what, where: best, old woman, bed, snow flakes, easy life, fat

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, feathers), 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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 best	nmod:poss
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 did	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 please	mark
6	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 please	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shook	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shook	cc
12	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bed	nmod:poss
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shook	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 will	case
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 will	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 will	det
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 shook	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 flew	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 feathers	det
21	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flew	nsubj
22	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 will	advcl
23	about	about	ADV	_	27 flakes	advmod
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 flakes	case
25	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flakes	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 snow	punct
27	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flew	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 led	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 led	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 led	nsubj
31	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 life	det
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 easy	advmod
34	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 life	amod
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 led	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 scolded	punct
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 scolded	aux:pass
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 scolded	advmod
39	scolded	scold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 led	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 lived	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 lived	cc
42	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 led	conj
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 fat	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fat	det
45	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lived	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 land	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 land	det
48	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fat	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	girl	girl's best		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
2	please	to-infinitive	girl not said here	the old woman		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woman=Experiencer
3	shake	past	girl not said here	girl's bed		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bed=Patient
4	fly	past	the feathers	snow flakes		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flake=Theme
5	lead	past	girl	a easy life		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
6	not scold	past · passive	girl not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»
7	live	past	girl not said here		the fat of the land	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fat=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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