The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 4
Let her do what she would, she was always blamed, and got small thanks for all the trouble she took; nothing was right, everything wrong; and yet, if the truth were known, the girl was worth her weight in gold--she was so unselfish and good-hearted.
Who acts: you, woman, nothing, girl · What happens: let, do, blame, get, take, be · To what, where: woman, small thanks, trouble, truth, gold
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman, nothing, girl), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 would | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blamed | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 blamed | aux:pass |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 blamed | advmod |
| 11 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 blamed | conj |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thanks | amod |
| 16 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 trouble | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 trouble | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trouble | det |
| 20 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thanks | nmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 trouble | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 right | punct |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 right | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 right | cop |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 got | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 everything | punct |
| 28 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 right | parataxis |
| 29 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 everything | amod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 yet | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 yet | cc |
| 32 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 1 Let | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 known | punct |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 known | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 truth | det |
| 36 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 known | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 known | aux:pass |
| 38 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 worth | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 girl | det |
| 41 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 worth | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 worth | cop |
| 43 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 known | parataxis |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 weight | nmod:poss |
| 45 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 worth | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 gold | case |
| 47 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 worth | obl |
| 48 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 52 unselfish | punct |
| 49 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 unselfish | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 unselfish | cop |
| 51 | so | so | ADV | _ | 52 unselfish | advmod |
| 52 | unselfish | unselfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 worth | parataxis |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 good | cc |
| 54 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 unselfish | conj |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 good | punct |
| 56 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 unselfish | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | woman | yet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | infinitive | woman not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | blame | past · passive | woman | always property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | small thanks | for all trouble | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme for trouble=Source | ||||
| 5 | take | past | woman | all trouble not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | nothing | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | know a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the truth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | is | past | the girl | gold | worth property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | is | past | woman | unselfish property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | be | woman not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 11 | be | woman not said here | tree rules |
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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