The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 50

Now the princess had been wondering for many days what trimming she should put on her dresses, so that they should outshine the dresses of the other ladies at the court balls.

Who acts: princess, dresses · What happens: wonder, trim, put, outshine · To what, where: many days, dresses, court balls

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, dresses), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 wondering	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wondering	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wondering	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 wondering	aux
6	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 days	amod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wondering	obl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 trimming	obj
11	trimming	trim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 days	acl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 put	aux
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 trimming	ccomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 dresses	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dresses	nmod:poss
17	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 outshine	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 outshine	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 outshine	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 outshine	aux
23	outshine	outshine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 put	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dresses	det
25	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 outshine	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 ladies	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ladies	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ladies	amod
29	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dresses	nmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 balls	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 balls	det
32	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 balls	compound
33	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 outshine	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wondering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past · perfect · progressive	the princess			now; day	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	trim	gerund		many days			tree rules
3	put	should	princess		princess's dresses		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination
4	outshine	should	dresses = dress	the dresses of the other ladies	the court balls		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dress=Theme

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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