The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 2
So she thought the best thing she could do was to bring him up with a horror of women; and, to her great delight, she saw this dislike only increased as he grew older.
Who acts: she, best thing, this, he, her · What happens: think, do, be, see, dislike, increase · To what, where: best thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, best thing, this, he), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | nsubj:outer |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 bring | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 horror | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 horror | det |
| 17 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 women | case |
| 19 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 horror | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 saw | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 and | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 delight | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 delight | nmod:poss |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 delight | amod |
| 26 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 delight | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 dislike | nsubj |
| 31 | dislike | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 saw | ccomp |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 increased | advmod |
| 33 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 dislike | advcl |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 grew | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 grew | nsubj |
| 36 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 increased | advcl |
| 37 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 grew | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | she | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | could | she | the best thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the best thing | with a horror of women; bring property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past | she | to her great delight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | dislike | present | this | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | increase | participle | this not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | grow | past | he | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | delight | her = she | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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 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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