The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 9

So, like a good mother, she tried to teach her daughter all she knew, and to bring her up to be always busy, so that she would never have time to think about herself.

Who acts: wife · What happens: try, teach, know, bring up, be, not have · To what, where: daughter, wife

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 (wife), 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 tried	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 mother	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mother	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tried	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tried	nsubj
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 teach	mark
11	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tried	xcomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 teach	obj
14	all	all	ADV	_	16 knew	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 teach	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bring	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 bring	mark
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 teach	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bring	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 bring	compound:prt
23	to	to	PART	_	26 busy	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 busy	cop
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 busy	advmod
26	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bring	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	33 have	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 have	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 have	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 have	advmod
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 teach	conj
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 think	mark
36	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 time	acl
37	about	about	ADP	_	38 herself	case
38	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 think	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	wife				like a good mother	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	teach speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife not said here		wife's daughter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient
3	know	past	wife				all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	bring up	to-infinitive	wife not said here	wife				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	is	to-infinitive	wife not said here				always, busy property	tree rules
6	not have	would	wife			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	think speech: other	to-infinitive	wife not said here				about wife	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about herself=Topic

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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