The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 35

But the princess felt no such happiness; in spite of all the magic delights around her she was sad, though she tried to seem content for fear of displeasing the gnome.

Who acts: princess, fear · What happens: feel, delight, be, try, seem, displease · To what, where: such happiness, spite, content, gnome, magic

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, fear), 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 felt	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 happiness	det
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 happiness	amod
7	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 delights	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 spite	case
10	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 delights	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 magic	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 magic	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 magic	det
14	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spite	nmod
15	delights	delight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	conj
16	around	around	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 delights	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sad	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sad	cop
20	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 delights	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tried	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 tried	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tried	nsubj
24	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 delights	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 seem	mark
26	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tried	xcomp
27	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seem	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 fear	case
29	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seem	obl
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 displeasing	mark
31	displeasing	displease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 fear	acl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 gnome	det
33	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 displeasing	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the princess	no such happiness			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme
2	delight	present	the princess not said here		spite of all magic	around princess	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	princess			sad property	tree rules
4	try	past	princess				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	seem not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess not said here	content		for fear	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme content=Attribute
6	displease	gerund	fear not said here	the gnome			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus gnome=Experiencer
7	spite			all magic			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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