The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 17

When she appeared on holidays in her embroidered cap, five petticoats, each one a little shorter than the other, and shoes with silver buckles, the women were all filled with envy, but little cared Barbaik what they might whisper behind her back as long as she knew that her clothes were finer than anyone else’s and that she had more partners than any other girl.

Who acts: girl, silver buckles, buckles, clothes · What happens: appear, embroider, fill, care, whisper, know · To what, where: shoes, holidays, women, Barbaik, more partners · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, silver buckles, buckles, clothes), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 appeared	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 appeared	nsubj
3	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 cared	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 holidays	case
5	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appeared	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 cap	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cap	nmod:poss
8	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cap	amod
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appeared	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 petticoats	punct
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 petticoats	nummod
12	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cap	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cap	appos
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 shorter	advmod
18	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 one	amod
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 other	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shorter	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shoes	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 shoes	cc
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appeared	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 buckles	case
26	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 buckles	compound
27	buckles	buckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shoes	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 filled	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 women	det
30	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 filled	nsubj:pass
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 filled	aux:pass
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 filled	advmod
33	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 buckles	acl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 envy	case
35	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 filled	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 cared	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 cared	cc
38	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 cared	advmod
39	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
40	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 cared	obj
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 whisper	obj
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 whisper	nsubj
43	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 whisper	aux
44	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 cared	ccomp
45	behind	behind	ADP	_	46 her	case
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 whisper	obl
47	back	back	ADV	_	49 long	advmod
48	as	as	ADV	_	49 long	advmod
49	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 whisper	advmod
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 knew	mark
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 knew	nsubj
52	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 long	advcl
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 finer	mark
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 clothes	nmod:poss
55	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	57 finer	nsubj
56	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 finer	cop
57	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	52 knew	ccomp
58	than	than	ADP	_	59 anyone	case
59	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	57 finer	obl
60	else	else	ADV	_	59 anyone	advmod
61	’s	's	PART	_	59 anyone	case
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 had	cc
63	that	that	SCONJ	_	65 had	mark
64	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 had	nsubj
65	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 finer	conj
66	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	67 partners	amod
67	partners	partner	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 had	obj
68	than	than	ADP	_	71 girl	case
69	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	71 girl	det
70	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 girl	amod
71	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 had	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 cared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	girl	shoes with silver buckles	holidays	in girl's embroidered cap and five petticoats	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on holiday=Location
2	embroider	participle					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fill	past · passive	silver buckles not said here	the women		with envy; all property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with envy=Instrument
4	care	past		Barbaik		little property	tree rules
5	whisper speech: assert	might	buckles = buckle			behind girl; long property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
6	know	past	girl				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	girl's clothes			than anyone; fine property	tree rules
8	have	past	girl	more partners		than any other girl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partner=Patient

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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