The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 39

She was spared from all the hardest of the housework, and had always the prettiest clothes to wear.

What happens: spare, have, wear · To what, where: wife, prettiest clothes

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. 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	3 spared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spared	aux:pass
3	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 hardest	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hardest	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hardest	det
7	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 spared	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 housework	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 housework	det
10	housework	housework	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hardest	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spared	conj
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 clothes	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 clothes	det
16	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 clothes	amod
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 had	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 wear	mark
19	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 clothes	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	spare	past · passive	wife	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient hard=Asset
2	have	past	the prettiest clothes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
3	wear	to-infinitive	the prettiest clothes not said here	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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