The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 51

She was also so spiteful that she gladly devoted all her time to carrying out all the mean or ill-natured tricks of the whole body of fairies.

Who acts: eldest · What happens: be, devote, carry out, trick · To what, where: mean, whole body

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest), 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	5 spiteful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spiteful	cop
3	also	also	ADV	_	5 spiteful	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 spiteful	advmod
5	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 devoted	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 devoted	nsubj
8	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	9 devoted	advmod
9	devoted	devote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spiteful	advcl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det:predet
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 time	nmod:poss
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 devoted	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 carrying	mark
14	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 time	acl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 carrying	compound:prt
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 mean	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mean	det
18	mean	mean	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carrying	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 tricks	cc
20	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tricks	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 ill	punct
22	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tricks	amod
23	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mean	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 body	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 body	det
26	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 body	amod
27	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tricks	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 fairies	case
29	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 body	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spiteful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	eldest = eld			spiteful property	tree rules
2	devote	past	eldest = eld		time	gladly property	vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	carry out	gerund	eldest = eld not said here	all mean or ill natured tricks of the whole body of fairies			vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	trick			the whole body of fairies			nom trick «act transitive»: of=patient

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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