The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 35

It would not be right, she felt, to make a quarrel in the house, and though in secret she wept bitterly, for a long while, nothing would make her change her mind.

Who acts: family, girl, nothing · What happens: not be, feel, make, weep, change, mind · To what, where: quarrel, house, secret, girl, mind

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, girl, nothing), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 right	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 right	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 right	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 felt	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 felt	nsubj
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 right	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 felt	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 quarrel	det
13	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 make	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 make	cc
19	though	though	ADP	_	21 secret	case
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 secret	case
21	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 make	obl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wept	nsubj
23	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 secret	acl:relcl
24	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	23 wept	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 while	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 while	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 while	det
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 while	amod
29	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wept	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 secret	punct
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 make	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 make	aux
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 make	obj
35	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 make	xcomp
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mind	nmod:poss
37	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 change	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 right	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	would	family				right property	tree rules
2	feel	past	girl					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	girl not said here	a quarrel	the house			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset quarrel=Product
4	weep	past	girl	secret not said here		while	bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
5	make	would	nothing	girl			though secret	tree rules
6	change	infinitive	girl not said here	girl's mind				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
7	mind		girl					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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