The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 89

Soon the neighbours whispered their surprise among themselves, for Tephany had not been able to resist the pleasure of putting the feather in her hair for some of the people who despised her for her poor clothes, and many were the jokes she made about them.

Who acts: neighbours, Tephany, pleasure, people, many jokes · What happens: whisper, not be, resist, put, despise, be · To what, where: surprise, pleasure, feather, hair, Tephany, many jokes

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 (neighbours, Tephany, pleasure, people), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 whispered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbours	det
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 whispered	nsubj
4	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 surprise	nmod:poss
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whispered	obj
7	among	among	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 whispered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 able	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 able	mark
11	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 able	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 able	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 able	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 able	cop
15	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 whispered	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 resist	mark
17	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 able	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pleasure	det
19	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 resist	obj
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 putting	mark
21	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 pleasure	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 feather	det
23	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 putting	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hair	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hair	nmod:poss
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 putting	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 some	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 putting	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 people	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 people	det
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 some	nmod
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 despised	nsubj
33	despised	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 people	acl:relcl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 despised	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 clothes	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 clothes	nmod:poss
37	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 clothes	amod
38	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	33 despised	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 made	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 made	cc
41	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 jokes	amod
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 jokes	cop
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 jokes	det
44	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 made	nsubj
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 made	nsubj
46	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whispered	conj
47	about	about	ADP	_	48 them	case
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 made	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	the neighbours	neighbours's surprise		among neighbours = neighbour; soon property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surprise=Topic
2	not is	past · perfect	Tephany			able property	tree rules
3	resist	to-infinitive	Tephany not said here	the pleasure			tree rules
4	put	gerund	the pleasure not said here	the feather	Tephany's hair	for some	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feather=Theme in hair=Destination
5	despise	past	the people	Tephany		for Tephany's poor clothes	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus for clothes=Attribute
6	is a	past		the many jokes			tree rules
7	make	past	the many jokes			about neighbours = neighbour	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
8	surprise		neighbours = neighbour				nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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