The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 4
All the time that this wise mother could spare from filling her son with hatred for all womenkind she passed in giving him a love of the pleasures of the chase, which henceforth became his chief joy.
Who acts: wise mother, mother, chase, man · What happens: spare, fill, pass, give, become, love · To what, where: time, son, womenkind, love, man, chief joy
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 (wise mother, mother, chase, man), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 spare | mark |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 mother | det |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mother | amod |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spare | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 spare | aux |
| 9 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 time | acl |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 filling | mark |
| 11 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 spare | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filling | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hatred | case |
| 15 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filling | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 womenkind | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 womenkind | det |
| 18 | womenkind | womenkind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filling | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 passed | nsubj |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 womenkind | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 giving | mark |
| 22 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 passed | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 giving | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 love | det |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 giving | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 pleasures | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pleasures | det |
| 28 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 love | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 chase | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 chase | det |
| 31 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pleasures | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 became | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 became | nsubj |
| 34 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 35 became | advmod |
| 35 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 chase | acl:relcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 joy | nmod:poss |
| 37 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 joy | amod |
| 38 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 became | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | could | this wise mother | all time not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent time=Asset | ||||
| 2 | fill | gerund | this wise mother not said here | mother's son | with hatred; for all womenkind | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent son=Patient with hatred=Instrument | |||
| 3 | pass | past | mother | all womenkind not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme womenkind=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | mother not said here | a love of the pleasures of the chase | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient love=Theme | |||
| 5 | become | past | the chase | man's chief joy | henceforth property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 6 | love | the pleasures of the chase | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | please | the chase | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | joy | man | nom joy «feeling 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 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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