The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 118

From this hour she hated poor Snowdrop like poison, and every day her envy, hatred, and malice grew, for envy and jealousy are like evil weeds which spring up and choke the heart.

Who acts: Queen, malice, envy, evil weeds · What happens: hate, grow, be, spring up, choke, envy · To what, where: poor Snowdrop, heart

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, malice, envy, evil weeds), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hated	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hated	nsubj
5	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Snowdrop	amod
7	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hated	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 poison	case
9	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 envy	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 envy	cc
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 envy	compound
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 envy	nmod:poss
15	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hated	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hatred	punct
17	hatred	hatred	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 envy	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grew	cc
20	malice	malice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grew	nsubj
21	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hated	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 weeds	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	30 weeds	case
24	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 weeds	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 jealousy	cc
26	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 envy	conj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 weeds	cop
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 weeds	case
29	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 weeds	amod
30	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grew	obl
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 spring	nsubj
32	spring	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 weeds	acl:relcl
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 spring	compound:prt
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 choke	cc
35	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 spring	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 heart	det
37	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 choke	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	Queen	poor Snowdrop	hour	like poison; Queen's day envy and hatred obl	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snowdrop=Stimulus
2	grow	past	malice				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	envy and jealousy			for evil weeds	tree rules
4	spring up	present	evil weeds				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	choke	infinitive	evil weeds not said here	the heart			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Destination
6	envy		Queen				nom envy «feeling 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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