The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 88
Still, she could not help feeling that if the king and queen had listened to her advice the girl would by this time be safely in the walls of her new home.
Who acts: mother · What happens: not help, feel, listen, be · To what, where: king, listened walls
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 6 help | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 help | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 help | advmod |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 help | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 listened | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 listened | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 listened | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 queen | cc |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | conj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 listened | aux |
| 15 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 walls | amod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 advice | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 advice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 listened | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 would | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 advice | acl:relcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 listened | obl |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 walls | cop |
| 26 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 29 walls | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 walls | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 walls | det |
| 29 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 feeling | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 home | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 home | nmod:poss |
| 32 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 home | amod |
| 33 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 walls | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | could | mother | still | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel not said to happen | gerund | mother not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | listen a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the king and queen | time | to mother's advice | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | infinitive | the listened walls | of mother's new home; safely property | 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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