The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 49
So her mistress soon grew weary of her, and dismissed her, much to the lazy creature’s delight.
Who acts: mistress, lazy creature · What happens: grow, dismiss, delight · To what, where: girl, delight
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 (mistress, lazy creature), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 grew | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | advmod |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 weary | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dismissed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dismissed | cc |
| 11 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dismissed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 delight | punct |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 delight | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 delight | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 creature | det |
| 17 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 creature | amod |
| 18 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 delight | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 creature | case |
| 20 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dismissed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | girl's mistress | soon, weary property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dismiss | past | girl's mistress not said here | girl | the lazy creature's delight | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to delight=Destination | |||
| 3 | delight | the lazy creature | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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