The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 124
She praised her diligence, but at the same time racked her brain as to what harder task she could set her to do.
Who acts: HELENA, harder task · What happens: praise, rack, set, do · To what, where: diligence, brain, 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 (HELENA, harder task), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 praised | nsubj |
| 2 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 diligence | nmod:poss |
| 4 | diligence | diligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 praised | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 racked | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 racked | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 racked | obl |
| 11 | racked | rack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 praised | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brain | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 racked | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 16 what | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 racked | obl |
| 17 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 task | amod |
| 18 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | nsubj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 set | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 set | aux |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 set | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 set | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past | HELENA | HELENA's diligence | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diligence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rack | past | HELENA not said here | HELENA's brain | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | |||
| 3 | set | could | harder task | HELENA | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | harder task not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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