The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 34

The weeks and months passed, till one day the mother said she would like to see how the dogs had been trained by her future daughters-in-law.

Who acts: weeks, mother, future daughters · What happens: pass, say, like, see, train · To what, where: dogs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weeks, mother, future daughters), 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 weeks	det
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 months	cc
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 weeks	conj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
7	till	till	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 like	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 like	aux
15	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 like	xcomp
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 trained	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dogs	det
20	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 trained	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 trained	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 trained	aux:pass
23	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 see	ccomp
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 daughters	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 daughters	nmod:poss
26	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 daughters	amod
27	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 trained	obl
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 law	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 law	case
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 in	punct
31	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 daughters	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	pass	past	the weeks and months			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother		day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	would	mother			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	train	past · perfect · passive	woman's future daughters and law	the dogs		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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