The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 52

The woman, who was always on the look-out for something to grumble at, grew very jealous of her husband’s affection for the bird, and would gladly have done it some harm had she dared.

Who acts: woman, harm · What happens: be, grumble, grow, do, have, dare · To what, where: look out, bird

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, harm), 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 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grew	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 out	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 out	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 out	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 out	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 out	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 out	det
9	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 out	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct
11	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 woman	appos
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 something	case
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 out	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 grumble	mark
15	grumble	grumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 something	acl
16	at	at	ADP	_	15 grumble	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 woman	punct
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 jealous	advmod
20	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grew	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 affection	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 husband	nmod:poss
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 affection	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 husband	case
25	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jealous	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 bird	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bird	det
28	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 affection	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 done	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 done	cc
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 done	aux
32	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	34 done	advmod
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 done	aux
34	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 grew	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 done	obj
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 harm	det
37	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 done	advcl
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 dared	nsubj
40	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 had	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the woman		the look out	for something; always property	tree rules
2	grumble speech: other	to-infinitive	the woman not said here				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past	the woman			jealous property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	would · perfect	the woman not said here	bird		gladly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	have	past	some harm				tree rules
6	dare	past	harm				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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