The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 81

Now though the Princess Sunbeam appeared to be only a poor shepherdess, she never forgot that she was a real Princess, and she was not at all sure that she ought to marry a humble shepherd, though she knew she would like to do so very much.

Who acts: Princess Sunbeam, Princess · What happens: appear, be, not forget, not be, marry, know · To what, where: poor shepherdess, real Princess, all, humble shepherd · Speech: someone speaks here

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 Sunbeam, Princess), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 appeared	advmod
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 appeared	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sunbeam	det
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sunbeam	compound
5	Sunbeam	Sunbeam	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	12 shepherdess	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 shepherdess	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 shepherdess	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shepherdess	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shepherdess	amod
12	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 forgot	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forgot	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 forgot	advmod
16	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 Princess	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 Princess	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Princess	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Princess	det
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Princess	amod
22	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forgot	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sure	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sure	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sure	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sure	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 sure	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 sure	obl
30	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 appeared	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 marry	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 marry	nsubj
33	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 marry	aux
34	to	to	PART	_	35 marry	mark
35	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sure	ccomp
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 shepherd	det
37	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 shepherd	amod
38	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 marry	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 knew	punct
40	though	though	SCONJ	_	42 knew	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 knew	nsubj
42	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 marry	conj
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 like	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 like	aux
45	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 knew	ccomp
46	to	to	PART	_	47 do	mark
47	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 like	xcomp
48	so	so	ADV	_	50 much	advmod
49	very	very	ADV	_	50 much	advmod
50	much	much	ADV	_	47 do	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the Princess Sunbeam			now		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	the Princess Sunbeam not said here	a poor shepherdess				tree rules
3	not forget	past	Princess					tree rules
4	is a	past	Princess	a real Princess				tree rules
5	not is	past	Princess		all		sure property	tree rules
6	marry	ought	Princess	a humble shepherd				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Patient
7	know	past	Princess					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	like	would	Princess					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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