The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 59

The stepmother thought to herself, ‘If one can become so beautiful by going out there, my own daughter shall also be sent, for she can well stand being made a little prettier.’

Who acts: stepmother, one, world · What happens: think, become, go out, send, stand, make · To what, where: world, own daughter

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, one, world), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stepmother	det
2	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 herself	case
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 thought	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 become	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 become	punct
8	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 become	mark
9	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 become	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 become	aux
11	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 beautiful	advmod
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 become	xcomp
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 going	mark
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 beautiful	advcl
16	out	out	ADV	_	17 there	advmod
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 going	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sent	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 daughter	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 daughter	amod
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sent	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sent	aux
23	also	also	ADV	_	25 sent	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 sent	aux:pass
25	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 become	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stand	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 stand	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stand	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 stand	aux
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 stand	advmod
31	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 made	nsubj:pass
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 made	aux:pass
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 sent	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 little	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 prettier	obl:unmarked
36	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 made	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 sent	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the stepmother		world			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	become a condition, not said to happen	can	one				beautiful property	tree rules
3	go out	gerund	one not said here			there		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	send	shall · passive		my own daughter				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	stand	can	world				well property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	gerund · passive					pretty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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