The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 83
The princess was not at all pleased when she heard the maiden’s reply, but, as she could not do without the dress, she was forced to give in, and contented herself with thinking that after all it did not matter much.
Who acts: princess, it, maiden · What happens: not be, hear, not do, force, give in, content · To what, where: all, reply, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, it, maiden), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleased | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 pleased | obl |
| 7 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 heard | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleased | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maiden | det |
| 12 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reply | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 maiden | case |
| 14 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 forced | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 forced | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 but | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 do | advmod |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 forced | advcl |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 dress | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dress | det |
| 25 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 forced | aux:pass |
| 29 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pleased | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 give | mark |
| 31 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 forced | xcomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 give | compound:prt |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 contented | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 contented | cc |
| 35 | contented | content | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleased | conj |
| 36 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 contented | obj |
| 37 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 38 thinking | mark |
| 38 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 contented | advcl |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 matter | mark |
| 40 | after | after | ADP | _ | 41 all | case |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 matter | obl |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 matter | nsubj |
| 43 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 matter | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 matter | advmod |
| 45 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 thinking | ccomp |
| 46 | much | much | ADV | _ | 45 matter | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the princess | all | pleased property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear | past | princess | the maiden's reply | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reply=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not do | could | princess | without the dress | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | force | past · passive | princess | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give in | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | content | past | the princess not said here | princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | gerund | the princess not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not matter | past · do-support | it | after all | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | reply | the maiden | nom reply «communication 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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