The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 48

She didn’t make Mother Holle’s bed as she ought to have done, and never shook it enough to make the feathers fly.

Who acts: girl, feathers · What happens: not make, do, not shake, make, fly · To what, where: bed

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	4 make	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bed	nmod:poss
6	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mother	flat
7	’s	's	PART	_	5 Mother	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 done	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
11	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	14 done	mark
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 make	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shook	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shook	cc
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 shook	advmod
18	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shook	obj
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 shook	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 shook	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 feathers	det
24	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fly	nsubj
25	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 make	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not make	past · do-support	girl	Mother's bed		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product
2	do	ought · perfect	girl			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not shake	past	girl not said here	bed	enough property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	make	to-infinitive	girl not said here			tree rules
5	fly	present	the feathers			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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