The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 39
It made the little bride quite sad to think she could do nothing to show her love for the old man’s heart.
Who acts: church, little bride, bride · What happens: make, think, do, show, love · To what, where: little bride, nothing, love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church, little bride, bride), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bride | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bride | amod |
| 5 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 sad | advmod |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bride | amod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 think | mark |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sad | xcomp |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 think | ccomp |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 show | mark |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 nothing | acl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 love | nmod:poss |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 show | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 man | case |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 show | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | church | the little bride | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material bride=Product | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the little bride not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | could | bride | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | bride not said here | bride's love | for the old man's heart | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Recipient | |||
| 5 | love | bride | nom love «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 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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