The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 19

She was much distressed, and thought constantly of her poor hungry father and her anxious mother.

What happens: distress, think · To what, where: maiden

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	4 distressed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 distressed	aux:pass
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 distressed	advmod
4	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thought	cc
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 distressed	conj
8	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	13 father	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 father	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 father	amod
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 father	amod
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mother	cc
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
16	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mother	amod
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 distressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	distress	past · passive		maiden					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	past							vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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