The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 36

The days passed slowly to Muffette, in spite of her brave efforts to occupy herself and not to sadden other people by her complaints.

Who acts: days, Muffette · What happens: pass, occupy, not sadden, spite, complain · To what, where: Muffette, spite, other people, brave efforts

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, Muffette), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 passed	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Muffette	case
6	Muffette	Muffette	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spite	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spite	case
9	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 efforts	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 efforts	nmod:poss
12	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 efforts	amod
13	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spite	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 occupy	mark
15	occupy	occupy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 passed	advcl
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 occupy	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sadden	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 sadden	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sadden	mark
20	sadden	sadden	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 occupy	conj
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sadden	obj
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 complaints	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 complaints	nmod:poss
25	complaints	complaint	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sadden	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	the days		Muffette	spite of Muffette's brave efforts	slowly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spite=Location
2	occupy	to-infinitive	the days not said here	Muffette				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
3	not sadden	to-infinitive	the days not said here	other people			by Muffette's complaints	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
4	spite			Muffette's brave efforts				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
5	complain		Muffette					nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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