The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 47
The stepmother knew what it all meant, and her mind never ceased from trying to invent some way of destroying the trees.
Who acts: stepmother, wind, mind, way · What happens: know, mean, not cease, try, invent, destroy · To what, where: way, trees
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, wind, mind, way), 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 stepmother | det |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 knew | obj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meant | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 meant | advmod |
| 7 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ceased | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ceased | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mind | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ceased | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 ceased | advmod |
| 13 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 14 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 15 trying | mark |
| 15 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 ceased | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 invent | mark |
| 17 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 trying | xcomp |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 invent | obj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 destroying | mark |
| 21 | destroying | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 way | acl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trees | det |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 destroying | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the stepmother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mean | past | wind | all property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not cease | past | stepmother's mind | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | try | gerund | stepmother's mind not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | invent not said to happen | to-infinitive | stepmother's mind not said here | some way | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Result | ||||
| 6 | destroy | gerund | some way not said here | the trees | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 7 | mind | stepmother | 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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