The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 55

She was so called because she liked eating parsley better than any other food, indeed she would hardly eat anything else.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: call, like, eat · To what, where: daughter, parsley, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	4 called	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 liked	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 liked	nsubj
7	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	advcl
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 liked	xcomp
9	parsley	parsley	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obj
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 eating	xcomp
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 food	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 food	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 food	amod
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 better	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
16	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	20 eat	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 eat	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 eat	aux
19	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	20 eat	advmod
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 called	conj
21	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 eat	obj
22	else	else	ADV	_	21 anything	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	past · passive		daughter		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	like	past	daughter			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	eat not said to happen	gerund	daughter not said here	parsley	good property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parsley=Patient
4	eat	would	daughter	anything	hardly, indeed property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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