The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 111

Her own mother had died when she was quite a child, and her stepmother was as cruel and unkind to her as she could be.

Who acts: own mother, mother, stepmother · What happens: die, be · To what, where: child, HELENA

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (own mother, mother, stepmother), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	aux
5	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 child	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 child	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 child	cop
9	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	11 child	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cruel	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cruel	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 stepmother	nmod:poss
15	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cruel	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cruel	cop
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 cruel	case
18	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 died	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 unkind	cc
20	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cruel	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 unkind	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 be	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 be	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 be	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 unkind	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	HELENA's own mother				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	past	mother	quite child			tree rules
3	is	past	HELENA's stepmother			cruel property	tree rules
4	be		HELENA's stepmother not said here		HELENA		tree rules

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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