The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 178

But the woman was not content; her greed would not allow her to sleep, and she kept on thinking and thinking what she could still become.

Who acts: woman, greed · What happens: not be, not allow, sleep, keep, think, become · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, greed), 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	_	6 content	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 content	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 content	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 content	advmod
6	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 allow	punct
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 greed	nmod:poss
9	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 allow	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 allow	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 allow	advmod
12	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 content	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 allow	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sleep	mark
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 allow	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kept	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kept	nsubj
19	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 content	conj
20	on	on	SCONJ	_	21 thinking	mark
21	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 kept	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thinking	cc
23	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 thinking	conj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 become	nsubj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 become	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 become	aux
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 become	advmod
28	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 thinking	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the woman			content property	tree rules
2	not allow	would	woman's greed	woman			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman's greed not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	keep	past	greed				tree rules
5	think speech: other	gerund	greed not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	gerund	greed not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	become	could			still		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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