The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 52

That night Desiree confessed to Eglantine that her pursuer was no other than the prince, and that far from flattering him, the portrait had never done him justice.

Who acts: night, pursuer, that · What happens: confess, be, flatter, not do · To what, where: Eglantine, light, portrait

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, pursuer, that), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 confessed	nsubj
3	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 night	appos
4	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Eglantine	case
6	Eglantine	Eglantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 confessed	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 other	mark
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pursuer	nmod:poss
9	pursuer	pursuer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 other	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 other	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 confessed	obl
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 prince	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 other	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flattering	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flattering	cc
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 flattering	nsubj
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 flattering	advmod
20	from	from	SCONJ	_	21 flattering	mark
21	flattering	flatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 confessed	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 flattering	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 portrait	det
25	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 done	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 done	advmod
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 confessed	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 done	obj
30	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 done	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 confessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	confess	past	that night		Eglantine		vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to eglantine=Recipient
2	is	past	Eglantine's pursuer			than the prince; other property	tree rules
3	flatter	gerund	that	light		far property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	not do	past · perfect · passive		the portrait			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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