The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 38
The parents then saw they had better make the best of a bad business, and set about making the grand preparations suitable to the occasion.
Who acts: parents · What happens: see, have, make, set · To what, where: best, grand preparations · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (parents), 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 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 make | csubj |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 best | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 business | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 business | det |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 business | amod |
| 14 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 best | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | conj |
| 18 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 19 making | mark |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 set | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 preparations | det |
| 21 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 preparations | amod |
| 22 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 making | obj |
| 23 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 making | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 occasion | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 occasion | det |
| 26 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 suitable | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the parents | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | parents = parent | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | parents = parent not said here | the best | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product | ||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | the parents not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund | the parents not said here | the grand preparations | suitable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset preparation=Product |
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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