The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 5

But her step-mother did not like her, and the poor girl’s days were spent in weeping; for it was impossible to live peacefully with the woman.

Who acts: step mother · What happens: not like, spend, be, live · To what, where: woman, days, weeping

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 (step mother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 like	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
3	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 step	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 like	advmod
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 like	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spent	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 girl	amod
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 days	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 girl	case
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spent	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spent	aux:pass
18	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 like	parataxis
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 weeping	case
20	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spent	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 impossible	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 impossible	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 impossible	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 impossible	cop
25	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 like	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 live	mark
27	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 impossible	csubj
28	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	27 live	advmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 woman	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 woman	det
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 live	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	woman's step mother	woman			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
2	spend	past · passive		the poor girl's days	weeping		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
3	is	past	woman's step mother not said here			impossible property	tree rules
4	live	to-infinitive				with the woman; peacefully property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with woman=Location

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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