The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 22

The step-mother fell into such a towering passion that she drove the man’s daughter into the pig-stye—she might stay there with her fine show of gold, the step-mother said, but she should not be permitted to set foot in the house.

Who acts: step mother, mother · What happens: fall, tower, drive, stay, say, not permit · To what, where: towering passion, daughter, pig stye, mother, foot, house · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (step mother, mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
2	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mother	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 step	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	10 passion	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 passion	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 passion	det
9	towering	tower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 passion	amod
10	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 drove	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drove	nsubj
13	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 daughter	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 man	case
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drove	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	22 stye	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stye	det
20	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stye	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 pig	punct
22	stye	stye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drove	obl
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	26 stay	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stay	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 stay	aux
26	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fell	conj
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 stay	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 show	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 show	nmod:poss
30	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 show	amod
31	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stay	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 gold	case
33	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 show	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mother	det
36	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mother	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 step	punct
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 said	nsubj
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 stay	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 permitted	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 permitted	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 permitted	nsubj
43	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 permitted	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 permitted	advmod
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 permitted	aux:pass
46	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 said	ccomp
47	to	to	PART	_	48 set	mark
48	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 permitted	xcomp
49	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 set	obj
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 house	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 house	det
52	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 set	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the step mother			into such towering passion result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into passion=Result
2	tower	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drive	past	mother	the man's daughter	the pig stye		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme into stye=Trajectory
4	stay	might	mother		there	with mother's fine show of gold	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with show=Location
5	say speech: assert	past	the step mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not permit	should · passive		mother			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	set not said to happen	to-infinitive		foot	the house		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in house=Destination
8	show		mother	gold			nom show «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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