The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 10

The prince was sorely perplexed as to what could be the matter with her, for naturally he could not guess that she was expecting her mother to return every moment, and to remove the spell the doves had laid upon her, and meanwhile was afraid to speak lest she should betray herself.

Who acts: length, bride, mother, spell · What happens: perplex, be, not guess, expect, return, remove · To what, where: prince, mother, spell, doves, bride · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, bride, mother, spell), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perplexed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 perplexed	aux:pass
4	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	5 perplexed	advmod
5	perplexed	perplex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 matter	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 as	fixed
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 matter	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 matter	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 matter	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 matter	det
12	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perplexed	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 matter	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 guess	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 guess	mark
17	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	21 guess	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 guess	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 guess	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 guess	advmod
21	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 perplexed	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 expecting	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 expecting	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 expecting	aux
25	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 guess	advcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 expecting	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 return	mark
29	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 expecting	xcomp
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 moment	det
31	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 return	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 remove	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 remove	cc
34	to	to	PART	_	35 remove	mark
35	remove	remove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 perplexed	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 spell	det
37	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 remove	obj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 doves	det
39	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 laid	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 laid	aux
41	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 spell	acl:relcl
42	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 her	case
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 laid	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 afraid	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 afraid	cc
46	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	48 afraid	advmod
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 afraid	cop
48	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 remove	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 speak	mark
50	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 afraid	xcomp
51	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	54 betray	mark
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 betray	nsubj
53	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 betray	aux
54	betray	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 speak	advcl
55	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	54 betray	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 perplexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	perplex	past · passive		the prince		sorely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	is	could				as the matter; with bride	tree rules
3	not guess	could	length			naturally property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	expect	past · progressive	bride	bride's mother			tree rules
5	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	bride's mother not said here		moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	remove	to-infinitive		the spell			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme
7	lay	past · perfect · passive	the spell not said here	the doves		upon bride	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon she=Destination
8	is	past				afraid, meanwhile property	tree rules
9	speak speech: other	to-infinitive					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	betray	should	bride	bride			tree rules

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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