The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 44

But the princess brushed him aside as if he had been a fly, and locked herself into the nearest room, which she would not open for all his entreaties.

Who acts: princess · What happens: brush, be, lock, not open · To what, where: heart, princess, nearest room

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. 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	_	4 brushed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brushed	nsubj
4	brushed	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brushed	obj
6	aside	aside	ADV	_	4 brushed	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	13 fly	case
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 been	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 been	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 been	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 fly	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fly	det
13	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brushed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 locked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 locked	cc
16	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brushed	conj
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 locked	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 room	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 room	det
20	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 room	amod
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 locked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 open	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 open	obj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 open	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 open	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 open	advmod
27	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 room	acl:relcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 entreaties	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 entreaties	det:predet
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 entreaties	nmod:poss
31	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 open	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	brush	past	the princess		heart		aside property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination
2	is	participle					as a fly	tree rules
3	lock	past	the princess not said here	princess		the nearest room		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
4	not open	would	princess	the nearest room			for heart's entreaties	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme

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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