The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 36

She put on her spectacles to look at Prince Hyacinth, but it was quite a long time before she could fix them securely because her nose was so very short.

Who acts: woman, horse, nose · What happens: put, look, be, fix · To what, where: spectacles, long time

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, horse, nose), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 spectacles	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 spectacles	nmod:poss
5	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 put	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 Hyacinth	case
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Hyacinth	compound
10	Hyacinth	Hyacinth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 time	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 time	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 time	cop
15	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	18 time	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 time	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl:unmarked
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 fix	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fix	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fix	aux
22	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 time	acl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fix	obj
24	securely	securely	ADV	_	22 fix	advmod
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 short	mark
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 nose	nmod:poss
27	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 short	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 short	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 short	advmod
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 short	advmod
31	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fix	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	woman		woman's spectacles		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on spectacle=Destination
2	look	to-infinitive	woman not said here			at Prince Hyacinth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hyacinth=Theme
3	is a	past	horse	quite long time			tree rules
4	fix	could	woman	spectacles = spectacle		securely property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	is	past	woman's nose			short property	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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