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The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 15

By his first wife the peasant had a daughter called Elsa, a good quiet girl, who only wanted to live in peace, but this her stepmother would not allow.

Who acts: peasant, good quiet girl, stepmother · What happens: have, call, want, live, not allow · To what, where: daughter, peace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, good quiet girl, stepmother), 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

casenmod:possamodobldetnsubjdetobjaclxcomppunctdetamodamodappospunctnsubjadvmodadvclmarkxcompcaseoblpunctccdetnmod:possnsubjauxadvmodconjpunctrootByADPhisPRONfirstADJwifeNOUNtheDETpeasantNOUNhadVERBaDETdaughterNOUNcalledVERBElsaPROPN,PUNCTaDETgoodADJquietADJgirlNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONonlyADVwantedVERBtoPARTliveVERBinADPpeaceNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJthisDETherPRONstepmotherNOUNwouldAUXnotPARTallowVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BybyADP_4 wifecase
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 wifenmod:poss
3firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord4 wifeamod
4wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing7 hadobl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 peasantdet
6peasantpeasantNOUNNumber=Sing7 hadnsubj
7hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 daughterdet
9daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing7 hadobj
10calledcallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 daughteracl
11ElsaElsaPROPNNumber=Sing10 calledxcomp
12,,PUNCT_16 girlpunct
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 girldet
14goodgoodADJDegree=Pos16 girlamod
15quietquietADJDegree=Pos16 girlamod
16girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing11 Elsaappos
17,,PUNCT_20 wantedpunct
18whowhoPRONPronType=Rel20 wantednsubj
19onlyonlyADV_20 wantedadvmod
20wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 girladvcl
21totoPART_22 livemark
22liveliveVERBVerbForm=Inf20 wantedxcomp
23ininADP_24 peacecase
24peacepeaceNOUNNumber=Sing22 liveobl
25,,PUNCT_32 allowpunct
26butbutCCONJ_32 allowcc
27thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem29 stepmotherdet
28herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 stepmothernmod:poss
29stepmotherstepmotherNOUNNumber=Sing32 allownsubj
30wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin32 allowaux
31notnotPARTPolarity=Neg32 allowadvmod
32allowallowVERBVerbForm=Inf7 hadconj
33..PUNCT_7 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastthe peasanta daughterby two's first wifevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2callparticiplea daughter not said herevn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3wantpasta good quiet girlvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4live not said to happento-infinitivea good quiet girl not said herepeacevn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location
5not allowwouldpeasant's stepmothervn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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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