The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 11

Then she thought to herself she’d have a sharp eye about her this time; so she never would allow a window to be more than a few inches open.

Who acts: princess, few inches · What happens: think, have, not allow, be, open · To what, where: princess, sharp eye, window · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, few inches), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 thought	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 herself	case
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 thought	obl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ’d	nsubj
7	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	ccomp
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ’d	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 eye	det
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eye	amod
11	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 time	nmod:poss
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 allow	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 allow	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 allow	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 allow	advmod
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 allow	aux
21	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 window	det
23	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 allow	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 more	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 more	cop
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 allow	obl
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 open	mark
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 inches	det
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 inches	amod
30	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 open	nsubj
31	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 more	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	princess		princess	then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	princess					tree rules
3	have	infinitive	princess not said here	a sharp eye		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	not allow	would	princess	a window				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Beneficiary
5	is	to-infinitive					more property	tree rules
6	open	present	a few inches					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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