The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 7

But her stepmother was anything but pleased, and went through the whole castle from top to bottom, to see if she couldn’t find some fault for which she could punish Helena.

Who acts: stepmother · What happens: be, go, see, not find, punish · To what, where: anything, whole castle, fault, Helena

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 (stepmother), 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	_	5 anything	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 stepmother	nmod:poss
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anything	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 anything	cop
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 pleased	cc
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 anything	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 anything	acl:relcl
11	through	through	ADP	_	14 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 castle	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 castle	amod
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 top	case
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 castle	nmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 bottom	case
18	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 top	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	conj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 find	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 find	advmod
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 see	advcl
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 fault	det
28	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 punish	obl
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 punish	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 punish	aux
33	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fault	acl:relcl
34	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 punish	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 anything	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Helena's stepmother	anything			tree rules
2	be		Helena's stepmother not said here				tree rules
3	go	past			the whole castle from top to bottom		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through castle=Initial_Location
4	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not find a condition, not said to happen	could	stepmother	some fault			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic
6	punish	could	stepmother	Helena		for some fault	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent helena=Patient for which=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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