The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 78

Almost before the gnome had finished, the disappointed princess turned away, and marched off to her own apartments, without deigning to answer him.

Who acts: disappointed princess · What happens: finish, turn away, march off, deign, answer · To what, where: gnome, own apartments

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 (disappointed 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	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 before	advmod
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 finished	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gnome	det
4	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finished	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	aux
6	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 turned	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 finished	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
9	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 princess	amod
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	nsubj
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 turned	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 marched	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 marched	cc
15	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 marched	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 apartments	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 apartments	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 apartments	amod
20	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 marched	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 deigning	punct
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	23 deigning	mark
23	deigning	deign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 marched	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 answer	mark
25	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 deigning	xcomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 answer	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect · passive		the gnome				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2	turn away	past	the disappointed princess				away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	march off	past	the disappointed princess not said here			princess's own apartments		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to apartment=Destination
4	deign	gerund	the disappointed princess not said here					tree rules
5	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	the disappointed princess not said here		gnome			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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