The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 99

'My husband will be home very soon,' answered the princess--who, though nearly as much frightened as her ladies, felt that she must set them a good example. '

Who acts: husband, princess · What happens: be, answer, frighten, feel, set · To what, where: princess, ladies

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 (husband, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 home	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 home	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 home	cop
6	home	home	ADV	_	11 answered	advcl
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 soon	advmod
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 home	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 felt	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 felt	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 felt	punct
17	though	though	ADV	_	26 felt	advmod
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	17 though	conj
21	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 much	acl
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 ladies	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ladies	nmod:poss
24	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 frightened	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 felt	punct
26	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 princess	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 set	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 set	aux
30	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 felt	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	obj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 example	det
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 example	amod
34	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 set	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	future	My husband			home, soon property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			the princess		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
3	frighten	participle				as princess's ladies	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	feel	past	the princess			though property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	set	must	princess	ladies = lady			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme example=Destination

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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