The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 184
She pondered day and night how she might destroy her, for as long as she felt she had a rival in the land her jealous heart left her no rest.
Who acts: SNOWDROP, jealous heart · What happens: ponder, destroy, feel, have, leave · To what, where: Queen, rival, land, rest
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 (SNOWDROP, jealous heart), 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 pondered | nsubj |
| 2 | pondered | ponder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pondered | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 night | cc |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 destroy | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 destroy | nsubj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 destroy | aux |
| 9 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pondered | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 destroy | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 long | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 had | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 felt | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 long | advcl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pondered | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 rival | det |
| 21 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 land | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 land | det |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 heart | amod |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | nsubj |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 had | parataxis |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 rest | nmod:poss |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 rest | det |
| 31 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ponder | past | SNOWDROP | day | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | destroy | might | SNOWDROP | Queen | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | SNOWDROP | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have | past | SNOWDROP | a rival | the land | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rival=Patient | ||
| 5 | leave | past | SNOWDROP's jealous heart | SNOWDROP's rest | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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