The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 41

Her stepmother gave her pancakes to take with her for her dinner, but she had mixed the flour with ashes, and made them just as bad as she could.

Who acts: stepmother · What happens: give, take, mix, make · To what, where: pancakes, wife

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: who acts (stepmother), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stepmother	nmod:poss
2	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pancakes	nmod:poss
5	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 dinner	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dinner	nmod:poss
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mixed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 mixed	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 mixed	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 mixed	aux
17	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gave	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flour	det
19	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mixed	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 ashes	case
21	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 flour	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	obj
26	just	just	ADV	_	28 bad	advmod
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 bad	advmod
28	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 made	xcomp
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 could	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 could	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 bad	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	wife's stepmother	wife's pancakes		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pancake=Theme
2	take	to-infinitive	wife's stepmother not said here		with wife; for wife's dinner	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dinner=Beneficiary
3	mix	past · perfect · passive		wife		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary flour=Product
4	make	past	wife's stepmother not said here	pancakes = pancake	bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=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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