The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 82
But she did not like to draw back, and pretended to be immensely delighted at her new toy, and kissed and thanked her husband for it.
Who acts: princess · What happens: not like, draw back, pretend, be, kiss, thank · To what, where: new toy, husband
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), 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 | _ | 5 like | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 draw | mark |
| 7 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 like | xcomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 draw | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pretended | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pretended | cc |
| 11 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 delighted | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 delighted | cop |
| 14 | immensely | immensely | ADV | _ | 15 delighted | advmod |
| 15 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pretended | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 toy | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 toy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 toy | amod |
| 19 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 delighted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kissed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kissed | cc |
| 22 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pretended | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 thanked | cc |
| 24 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pretended | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 husband | nmod:poss |
| 26 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thanked | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thanked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | princess | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | draw back not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pretend | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | princess's new toy | delighted, immensely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | kiss | past | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | thank speech: thank | past | princess's husband | for toy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent husband=Theme for it=Attribute |
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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