The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 38

She reminded her how she had not followed her instructions, but had eaten the first onion with all its skins, on which account her first-born had been a lindorm.

Who acts: youth · What happens: remind, not follow, eat, bear, be, instruct · To what, where: skin, youth, first onion, born lindorm

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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	2 reminded	nsubj
2	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reminded	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 followed	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 followed	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 followed	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 followed	advmod
8	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reminded	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 instructions	nmod:poss
10	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 followed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 eaten	cc
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 reminded	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 onion	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 onion	amod
17	onion	onion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eaten	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 skins	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 skins	det:predet
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 skins	nmod:poss
21	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eaten	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 account	punct
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 account	case
24	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	25 account	det
25	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 skins	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 lindorm	nmod:poss
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 born	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 first	punct
29	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 lindorm	amod
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lindorm	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 lindorm	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 lindorm	det
33	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 skins	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reminded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	past	youth		skin		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	not follow	past · perfect · passive		youth			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme instruction=Attribute
3	eat	past · perfect	youth not said here	the first onion		with onion's skins and which account	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent onion=Patient
4	bear	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past · perfect		youth's born lindorm			tree rules
6	instruct		youth				nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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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