The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 56

Her poor mother hadn’t enough money always to be buying parsley for her, but the child was so beautiful that she could refuse her nothing, and so she went every night to the garden of an old witch who lived near and stole great branches of the coveted vegetable, in order to satisfy her daughter.

Who acts: poor mother, child, daughter, old witch · What happens: not have, buy, be, refuse, go, live · To what, where: enough money, parsley, nothing, garden, great branches, daughter

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 (poor mother, child, daughter, old witch), 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	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 had	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 money	amod
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 money	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	11 buying	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 buying	aux
11	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 money	acl
12	parsley	parsley	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 buying	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 buying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beautiful	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 beautiful	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beautiful	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 beautiful	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 beautiful	advmod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 refuse	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 refuse	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 refuse	aux
25	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 beautiful	advcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 nothing	nmod:poss
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 refuse	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 night	det
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	obl:unmarked
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 garden	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 garden	det
37	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 witch	case
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 witch	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 witch	amod
41	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 garden	nmod
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 lived	nsubj
43	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 witch	acl:relcl
44	near	near	ADV	_	43 lived	advmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 stole	cc
46	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 lived	conj
47	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 branches	amod
48	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 stole	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 vegetable	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 vegetable	det
51	coveted	covet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 vegetable	amod
52	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 branches	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 satisfy	punct
54	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	57 satisfy	mark
55	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 in	fixed
56	to	to	PART	_	57 satisfy	mark
57	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 stole	conj
58	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 daughter	nmod:poss
59	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 satisfy	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past	daughter's poor mother	enough money				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	buy	to-infinitive · progressive	daughter's poor mother not said here	parsley			for daughter	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent parsley=Theme for she=Beneficiary
3	is	past	the child				beautiful property	tree rules
4	refuse	could	daughter	nothing				vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
5	go	past	daughter		the garden of a old witch	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial_Location
6	live	past	a old witch				near property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	steal	past	a old witch not said here	great branches of the coveted vegetable				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=Theme
8	covet	participle						vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
9	satisfy	to-infinitive	a old witch not said here	daughter's daughter				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus daughter=Experiencer

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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