The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 135

But the princess, like many other girls, was restless, and preferred to wander about the garden, rather than rest on a pile of soft cushions.

Who acts: princess · What happens: be, prefer, wander · To what, where: rest

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. 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	_	11 restless	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 restless	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 girls	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 girls	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girls	amod
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girls	amod
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 princess	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 princess	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 restless	cop
11	restless	restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 preferred	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 preferred	cc
14	preferred	prefer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 restless	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wander	mark
16	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 preferred	xcomp
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 garden	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 garden	det
19	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wander	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rest	punct
21	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	23 rest	cc
22	than	than	ADP	_	21 rather	fixed
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wander	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 pile	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 pile	det
26	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rest	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 cushions	case
28	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cushions	amod
29	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pile	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 restless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess and many other girls		restless property	tree rules
2	prefer	participle	the princess and many other girls not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	wander not said to happen	to-infinitive	the princess and many other girls not said here	rest on a pile of soft cushions	about the garden	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about garden=Trajectory

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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