The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 88
Meanwhile, the maiden, in her gorgeous prison, sighed in secret over her grief, not wishing to arouse the gnome’s suspicions.
Who acts: gnome · What happens: sigh, not wish, arouse, suspect · To what, where: gorgeous prison, suspicions
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 (gnome), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 maiden | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 prison | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 prison | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 prison | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 prison | amod |
| 9 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maiden | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sighed | punct |
| 11 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 prison | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 secret | case |
| 13 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sighed | obl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 grief | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 grief | nmod:poss |
| 16 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sighed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wishing | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 wishing | advmod |
| 19 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 grief | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 arouse | mark |
| 21 | arouse | arouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wishing | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gnome | det |
| 23 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 suspicions | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 gnome | case |
| 25 | suspicions | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 arouse | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | participle | princess's gorgeous prison not said here | over princess's grief; in secret | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in secret=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not wish | gerund | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | arouse not said to happen | to-infinitive | the gnome's suspicions | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus suspicion=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | suspect | the gnome | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: 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 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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