The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 37

She fully returned his passion, but, like a woman, she saw the difficulties in the way, and consulted sadly with Gon as to the means of overcoming them.

Who acts: Cupid, the · What happens: return, see, consult, mean, overcome · To what, where: passion, difficulties, way

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (Cupid, the), 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	3 returned	nsubj
2	fully	fully	ADV	_	3 returned	advmod
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 passion	nmod:poss
5	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 woman	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 woman	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 woman	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 difficulties	det
16	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 saw	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 difficulties	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 consulted	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 consulted	cc
22	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	conj
23	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	22 consulted	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 Gon	case
25	Gon	Gon	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 consulted	obl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 means	mark
27	to	to	ADP	_	26 as	fixed
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 means	nsubj
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 consulted	advcl
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 overcoming	mark
31	overcoming	overcome	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 means	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 overcoming	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	Cupid	Gon's passion		fully property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passion=Theme
2	see	past	Cupid	the difficulties	the way	like a woman	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer difficulty=Stimulus
3	consult	past	Cupid not said here			with Gon; sadly property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gon=Co-Agent
4	mean	present	the				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	overcome	gerund	the not said here	difficulties = difficulty			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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