The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 191

The princess, his wife, although she had got her husband by a trick, found that she could not trick HIM, and so she never tried, but busied herself in teaching her children and scolding her maids.

Who acts: princess · What happens: get, find, not trick, not try, busy, teach · To what, where: husband, Nur, princess, children, maids

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wife	punct
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 princess	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
7	although	although	SCONJ	_	10 got	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 got	aux
10	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 princess	acl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 husband	nmod:poss
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 trick	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 trick	det
15	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 princess	punct
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 trick	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 trick	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 trick	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 trick	advmod
22	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 found	ccomp
23	HIM	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 trick	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tried	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tried	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 tried	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tried	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 tried	advmod
29	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 busied	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 busied	cc
32	busied	busy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	conj
33	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 busied	obj
34	in	in	SCONJ	_	35 teaching	mark
35	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 busied	advcl
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 children	nmod:poss
37	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 teaching	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 scolding	cc
39	scolding	scold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 teaching	conj
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 maids	nmod:poss
41	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 scolding	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	princess	princess's husband		by a trick	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus
2	find	past	the princess and Nur's wife				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not trick	could	princess	Nur			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	not try	past	princess				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	busy	past	the princess and Nur's wife not said here	princess			tree rules
6	teach speech: other	gerund	the princess and Nur's wife not said here		princess's children		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
7	scold	gerund	the princess and Nur's wife not said here	princess's maids			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Theme

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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