English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 15
The stepmother was angry, but she pretended not to mind the loss.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: be, pretend, not mind · To what, where: loss
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stepmother | det |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pretended | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 pretended | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pretended | nsubj |
| 8 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | conj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 mind | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 mind | mark |
| 11 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pretended | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 loss | det |
| 13 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mind | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stepmother | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pretend | past | stepmother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not mind | to-infinitive | stepmother not said here | the loss | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=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: «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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