The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 48

The children throve well, and Dotterine’s nurse loved her as if she were the baby’s real mother.

Who acts: children, nurse, evil · What happens: throve, love, be · To what, where: evil, real mother

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, nurse, evil), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 throve	nsubj
3	throve	throve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 throve	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 loved	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 loved	cc
7	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 nurse	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Dotterine	case
9	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loved	nsubj
10	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 throve	parataxis
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loved	obj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 mother	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 mother	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 mother	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 mother	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 baby	det
17	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mother	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 baby	case
19	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mother	amod
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loved	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 throve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throve	past	the children		well property	tree rules
2	love	past	Dotterine's nurse	evil		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	is a	past	evil	the baby's real mother		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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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