The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 12

But she was an impudent, bad old woman, and set about helping herself.

Who acts: woman, impudent bad old woman · What happens: be, set, help · To what, where: impudent bad old woman, woman

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Three Bears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, impudent bad old 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	_	9 woman	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 woman	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 woman	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
5	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 impudent	punct
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 set	cc
12	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 woman	acl
13	about	about	SCONJ	_	14 helping	mark
14	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 set	advcl
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 helping	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	woman	a impudent bad old woman	tree rules
2	set	infinitive	a impudent bad old woman not said here		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	help	gerund	a impudent bad old woman not said here	woman	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary

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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