The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 15

Lizina therefore was warmly welcomed, and she set to work at once to prepare the dinner, not without many misgivings as to the tastes of the cats, and whether she would be able to satisfy them.

Who acts: Lizina · What happens: welcome, set, work, prepare, be, satisfy · To what, where: Lizina, dinner, Cats

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lizina), 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	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 welcomed	nsubj:pass
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	5 welcomed	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 welcomed	aux:pass
4	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	5 welcomed	advmod
5	welcomed	welcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 set	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 set	nsubj
9	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 welcomed	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 work	mark
11	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 set	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 work	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 prepare	mark
15	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 work	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dinner	det
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 prepare	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 misgivings	punct
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 misgivings	advmod
20	without	without	ADP	_	22 misgivings	case
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 misgivings	amod
22	misgivings	misgiving	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 prepare	obl
23	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	26 tastes	case
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tastes	det
26	tastes	taste	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 misgivings	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 cats	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cats	det
29	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tastes	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 able	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 able	cc
32	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	36 able	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 able	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 able	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 able	cop
36	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 set	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 satisfy	mark
38	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 able	xcomp
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 satisfy	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 welcomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	welcome	past · passive		Lizina	therefore, warmly property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	set	past	Lizina			tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	Lizina not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme
4	prepare	to-infinitive	Lizina not said here	the dinner	without many misgivings as the tastes of the cats	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
5	is	would	Lizina		able property	tree rules
6	satisfy	to-infinitive	Lizina not said here	Cats = cat		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
7	taste			the cats		nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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