The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 53

With a very ill grace the damsel set forth, grumbling to herself as she went; for though she wished for the wreath, she did not at all want the trouble of getting it.

Who acts: stepmother, trouble · What happens: set, grumble, go, wish, do, not want · To what, where: damsel, stepmother, trouble

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, trouble), 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	With	with	ADP	_	5 grace	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grace	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 ill	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grace	amod
5	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 damsel	det
7	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grace	conj
8	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 damsel	acl
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 set	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grumbling	punct
11	grumbling	grumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 set	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 herself	case
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 grumbling	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 went	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grumbling	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 wished	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 though	case
19	though	though	ADV	_	21 wished	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wished	nsubj
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 set	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 wreath	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wreath	det
24	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wished	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 did	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wished	advcl
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 want	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 want	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 want	advmod
31	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 did	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trouble	det
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 want	obj
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 getting	mark
35	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 trouble	acl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 getting	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grace	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	set	participle		the damsel not said here		forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	grumble speech: other	gerund			stepmother		vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
3	go	past	stepmother				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wish	past	stepmother			for the wreath	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for though=Theme
5	do	past	stepmother				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not want	present	stepmother not said here	the trouble			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot trouble=Theme
7	get	gerund	the trouble not said here	trouble			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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