The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 6
But his sister, who was still at home, fared worse and worse.
Who acts: sister · What happens: be, fare · To what, where: home
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 (sister), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 fared | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fared | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 home | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 home | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 home | cop |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 home | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sister | punct |
| 11 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 fared | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 worse | cc |
| 14 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 worse | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man's sister and home | home | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fare | past | man's sister and home | bad property | tree rules |
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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