The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 49

Perhaps she was; but a great deal had to be accomplished yet, and he had allowed himself a very short time in which to do it.

Who acts: princess, great deal · What happens: be, have, accomplish, allow, do · To what, where: deal, heart

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, great deal), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	3 was	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 was	nsubj
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deal	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 accomplished	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 accomplished	aux:pass
12	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 had	xcomp
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 accomplished	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 allowed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 allowed	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 allowed	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 allowed	aux
18	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 accomplished	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 allowed	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 time	det
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 short	advmod
22	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 allowed	obl:unmarked
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 do	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 time	acl:relcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	princess				perhaps property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a great deal					tree rules
3	accomplish	to-infinitive · passive	a great deal not said here			yet		vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»
4	allow	past · perfect · passive		deal	deal	time		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal himself=Theme
5	do	to-infinitive		heart		in a short time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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