The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 3

And the mother of the genius gave a howl of rage, knowing that she could neither climb it nor get through it.

Who acts: mother, rage · What happens: give, know, climb, get, howl · To what, where: howl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, rage), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 gave	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 genius	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 genius	det
6	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mother	nmod
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 howl	det
9	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 rage	case
11	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 howl	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knowing	punct
13	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 gave	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 climb	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 climb	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 climb	aux
17	neither	neither	ADV	_	18 climb	advmod
18	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knowing	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 climb	obj
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 get	cc
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 climb	conj
22	through	through	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 get	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the mother of the genius	a howl of rage			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent howl=Theme
2	know	gerund	the mother of the genius not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	climb	could	mother	howl		neither property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
4	get	infinitive	mother not said here		howl		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through it=Destination
5	howl		rage				nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=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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