The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 17

However, as she did not know this, she lived in hope of soon going back to her own country, and tried to amuse herself as well as she could until the time should come.

Who acts: Princess, hope, time · What happens: not know, live, go back, try, amuse, come · To what, where: this, hope, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, hope, time), 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	However	however	ADV	_	11 lived	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 know	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lived	advcl
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 know	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 hope	case
13	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 going	mark
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 going	advmod
16	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 hope	acl
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 going	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 country	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 country	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 country	amod
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 back	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tried	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tried	cc
24	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lived	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 amuse	mark
26	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tried	xcomp
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 amuse	obj
28	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	26 amuse	advmod
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 as	fixed
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 could	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 could	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 amuse	advcl
33	until	until	SCONJ	_	37 come	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 time	det
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 could	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Princess	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	live	past	Princess		hope	however property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hope=Location
3	go back	gerund	hope not said here			soon property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	try	past	Princess not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	amuse not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	Princess			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
6	come	should	the time				vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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