The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 27
The young girl had only possessed it for a short time, and neglected all her duties for the sake of the mirror.
What happens: possess, neglect · To what, where: young girl, duties
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 possessed | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 possessed | advmod |
| 6 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 possessed | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 possessed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 neglected | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 neglected | cc |
| 14 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 possessed | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 duties | det:predet |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 duties | nmod:poss |
| 17 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 neglected | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 sake | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sake | det |
| 20 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 neglected | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mirror | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mirror | det |
| 23 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sake | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 possessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | past · perfect · passive | the young girl | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | neglect | past | girl's duties | for the sake of the mirror | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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