The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 48

But though she pretended to despise the wreath, she longed none the less for her daughter to have one like it.

Who acts: stepmother · What happens: pretend, despise, long, have · To what, where: wreath, none, one

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 longed	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 pretended	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pretended	nsubj
4	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 longed	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 despise	mark
6	despise	despise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretended	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wreath	det
8	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 despise	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pretended	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 longed	nsubj
11	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 longed	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 less	det
14	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 longed	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 daughter	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughter	nmod:poss
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 longed	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 have	mark
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 longed	advcl
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 have	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 one	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	stepmother			tree rules
2	despise	to-infinitive	stepmother not said here	the wreath		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wreath=Stimulus
3	long	past	stepmother	none	for stepmother's daughter; less property	tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive	stepmother not said here	one	like Wreath	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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