The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 176

There was nothing to be done with a man like this, and she made all haste to fill the sacks with ducats, so as to get rid of Stan as soon as possible.

Who acts: nothing, mother · What happens: be, do, make, fill, get · To what, where: haste, sacks

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 was	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 done	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nothing	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 man	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 this	case
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 man	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 haste	det
17	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fill	mark
19	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 haste	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sacks	det
21	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fill	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 ducats	case
23	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fill	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 get	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 get	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 get	mark
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 made	parataxis
29	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 get	xcomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Stan	case
31	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 rid	obl
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 soon	advmod
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 get	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 possible	mark
35	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 soon	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive · passive	nothing not said here			with a man like this	vn act-114-1 «NP V»
3	make	past	mother	all haste			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
4	fill	to-infinitive	mother not said here	the sacks		with ducats	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sack=Patient with ducat=Instrument
5	get	to-infinitive				rid, soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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