The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 125
But they did not forget the old woman who had brought about all their happiness, and they gave her enough money to make her comfortable to the end of her days.
Who acts: doors · What happens: not forget, bring, give, make · To what, where: old woman, enough money, woman
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors), 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 | _ | 5 forget | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 forget | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forget | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 forget | advmod |
| 5 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forget | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 woman | acl:relcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 happiness | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 happiness | det:predet |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 15 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forget | parataxis |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 money | amod |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 gave | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 make | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 end | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 end | det |
| 29 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 comfortable | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 days | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 days | nmod:poss |
| 32 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 end | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | past · do-support | doors = door | the old woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the old woman | about doors's happiness | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | give | past | doors = door | enough money | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient money=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | doors = door not said here | woman | comfortable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
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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