The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 75
‘Why, my pretty maiden hardly looks happier than she did before, in spite of meeting her lover whenever she pleases.’
Who acts: pretty maiden, Tephany, spite · What happens: look, do, meet, please · To what, where: lover
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty maiden, Tephany, spite), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looks | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 maiden | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maiden | amod |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looks | nsubj |
| 7 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 8 looks | advmod |
| 8 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 9 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 looks | xcomp |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 did | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happier | advcl |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 did | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spite | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 spite | case |
| 16 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looks | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 meeting | mark |
| 18 | meeting | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 spite | acl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lover | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meeting | obj |
| 21 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 pleases | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pleases | nsubj |
| 23 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 meeting | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looks | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | my pretty maiden | in spite; happy, hardly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in spite=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Tephany | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | meet | gerund | spite not said here | Tephany's lover | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | please | present | Tephany | whenever property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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