The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 132

But the wicked woman was furious at the frustration of her own evil designs, and only thought of what harder thing she could set the girl to do.

Who acts: wicked woman, woman · What happens: be, think, set, do, frustrate, design · To what, where: frustration, girl, own evil designs

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 (wicked woman, woman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 furious	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 furious	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 furious	cop
6	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 frustration	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 frustration	det
9	frustration	frustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 furious	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 designs	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 designs	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 designs	amod
13	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 designs	compound
14	designs	design	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 frustration	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 thought	advmod
18	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 furious	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 what	case
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 thought	obl
21	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 what	acl:relcl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 set	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 set	aux
25	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thing	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 girl	det
27	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 set	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 girl	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 furious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wicked woman		the frustration of woman's own evil designs	furious property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	participle	the wicked woman not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	set	could	woman	the girl			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient girl=Result
4	do	to-infinitive	woman not said here	the girl not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	frustrate			woman's own evil designs			nom frustration «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	design		woman				nom design «act transitive»: poss=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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