The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 59
The mother was quite pleased with this suggestion, and so the beautiful Parsley took up her abode with the old witch.
Who acts: mother, beautiful Parsley · What happens: be, take up · To what, where: abode
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 (mother, beautiful Parsley), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 suggestion | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 suggestion | det |
| 8 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Parsley | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Parsley | amod |
| 14 | Parsley | Parsley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 abode | nmod:poss |
| 18 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 witch | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 witch | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 witch | amod |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the mother | with this suggestion; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | the beautiful Parsley | Parsley's abode | with the old witch | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=Theme |
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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