The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 80

Laufer had hoped secretly that when the prince had seen the blue dress finished he would have let her off the other two; but when she found she was expected to fulfil the whole task, her heart sank and she began to cry loudly.

Who acts: blue dress, Laufer, heart · What happens: hope, see, finish, let off, find, expect · To what, where: Laufer, prince, whole task · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blue dress, Laufer, heart), 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	Laufer	Laufer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hoped	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hoped	aux
3	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	3 hoped	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 seen	mark
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 seen	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seen	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hoped	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dress	det
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dress	amod
13	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 finished	nsubj
14	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	advcl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	nsubj:pass
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 let	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	aux
18	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 finished	ccomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	off	off	ADP	_	18 let	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 two	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 two	amod
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 let	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 found	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 found	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hoped	parataxis
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 expected	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 expected	aux:pass
31	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 found	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 fulfil	mark
33	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 expected	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 task	det
35	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 task	amod
36	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fulfil	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sank	punct
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 heart	nmod:poss
39	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sank	nsubj
40	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	advcl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 began	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 began	nsubj
43	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 cry	mark
45	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 began	xcomp
46	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	45 cry	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hoped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hope	past · perfect · passive		Laufer	secretly property	tree rules
2	see	past · perfect · passive		the prince		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	finish	past	the blue dress			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	let off	would · perfect · passive		Prince		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme
5	find	past	Laufer			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	expect	past · passive		Laufer		tree rules
7	fulfil not said to happen	to-infinitive	Laufer not said here	the whole task		tree rules
8	sink	past	Laufer's heart			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	begin	past	heart			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	heart not said here		loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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