English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 51
So she hated her sister for taking away Sir William's love, and day by day her hate grew upon her, and she plotted and she planned how to get rid of her.
Who acts: William, hate · What happens: hate, take away, grow, plot, plan, get · To what, where: sister, love
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (William, hate), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hated | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hated | nsubj |
| 3 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hated | iobj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 taking | mark |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hated | advcl |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 taking | advmod |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 William | nmod:desc |
| 10 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 love | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 William | case |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grew | cc |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | nmod |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hate | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hated | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grew | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 plotted | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 plotted | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 plotted | nsubj |
| 26 | plotted | plot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hated | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 planned | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 planned | nsubj |
| 29 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 plotted | conj |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 get | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 get | mark |
| 32 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 planned | ccomp |
| 33 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 get | xcomp |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 her | case |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 rid | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | William | William's sister | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take away | gerund | William not said here | William Sir's love | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | |||
| 3 | grow | past | William's hate | day | upon William | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location | |||
| 4 | plot | past | William | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | plan | past | William | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | William not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | love | William Sir | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | hate | William | nom hate «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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