The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 139

This very afternoon the princess had left all her women asleep, and, after trying in vain to amuse herself indoors, she had slipped out into the great garden, and rambled about in all her favourite nooks and corners, feeling quite safe as there was not a creature to be seen.

Who acts: princess, creature · What happens: leave, try, amuse, slip out, ramble, feel · To what, where: afternoon, vain, princess, great garden, favourite nooks

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, creature), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 afternoon	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 afternoon	advmod
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	nsubj:pass
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 women	det:predet
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 women	nmod:poss
10	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 asleep	nsubj
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 left	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slipped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slipped	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 trying	mark
16	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 slipped	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 vain	case
18	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 trying	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 amuse	mark
20	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 trying	xcomp
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 amuse	obj
22	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	20 amuse	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 trying	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 slipped	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 slipped	aux
26	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 left	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 slipped	compound:prt
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 garden	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 garden	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 garden	amod
31	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slipped	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rambled	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rambled	cc
34	rambled	ramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	parataxis
35	about	about	ADV	_	34 rambled	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	40 nooks	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 nooks	det:predet
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 nooks	nmod:poss
39	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 nooks	amod
40	nooks	nook	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rambled	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 corners	cc
42	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 nooks	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 feeling	punct
44	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 rambled	conj
45	quite	quite	ADV	_	46 safe	advmod
46	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 feeling	xcomp
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 was	mark
48	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	49 was	expl
49	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 safe	advcl
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 creature	advmod
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 creature	det
52	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 was	nsubj
53	to	to	PART	_	55 seen	mark
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 seen	aux:pass
55	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 creature	acl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect · passive		this afternoon			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	try	gerund	princess not said here		vain		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	amuse not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess not said here	princess		indoors property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
4	slip out	past · perfect	princess		the great garden		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	ramble	past			princess's favourite nooks and corners	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nook=Trajectory
6	feel	gerund				safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	be	past	a creature		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	to-infinitive · passive	a creature not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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