The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 14

Turritella, for that was her name, had been brought up by her godmother, the Fairy Mazilla, but in spite of all the care bestowed upon her, she was neither beautiful nor gracious.

Who acts: that, godmother, Turritella · What happens: be, bring up, bestow, spite · To what, where: Turritella, spite, care

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, godmother, Turritella), 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	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 brought	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 name	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 name	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 name	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 name	cop
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turritella	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Turritella	punct
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 brought	aux:pass
11	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 brought	compound:prt
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 godmother	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 godmother	nmod:poss
15	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Mazilla	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Mazilla	det
18	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Mazilla	compound
19	Mazilla	Mazilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 godmother	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bestowed	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 bestowed	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 spite	case
23	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bestowed	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 care	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 care	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 care	det
27	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spite	nmod
28	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 brought	conj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bestowed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 beautiful	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 beautiful	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 beautiful	cop
34	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	35 beautiful	cc:preconj
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bestowed	parataxis
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	37 gracious	cc
37	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 beautiful	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	that			for Turritella's name	tree rules
2	bring up	past · perfect · passive	Turritella's godmother	Turritella			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	bestow	participle	Turritella's godmother not said here		spite of all care	upon Turritella	tree rules
4	is	past	Turritella			beautiful property	tree rules
5	be		Turritella not said here				tree rules
6	spite			all care			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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