The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 117

They even suggested that she should carry weights in her pockets, or have them tied to her ankles; but this idea was given up, as the princess found it so uncomfortable.

Who acts: subjects, Diaphana, princess · What happens: suggest, carry, have, tie, give up, find · To what, where: weights, pockets, subjects, idea, report · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subjects, Diaphana, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 suggested	nsubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 suggested	advmod
3	suggested	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 carry	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carry	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 carry	aux
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 suggested	ccomp
8	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carry	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 pockets	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pockets	nmod:poss
11	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carry	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 carry	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	obj
16	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 have	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 ankles	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ankles	nmod:poss
19	ankles	ankle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tied	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 given	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 given	cc
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 idea	det
23	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 given	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 given	aux:pass
25	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 suggested	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 given	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 found	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princess	det
30	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 suggested	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	obj
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 uncomfortable	advmod
34	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 found	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suggested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	past	subjects = subject				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	carry	should	Diaphana	weights	Diaphana's pockets		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent weight=Value in pocket=Location
3	have	infinitive	Diaphana not said here	subjects = subject			tree rules
4	tie	participle	subjects = subject not said here			to Diaphana's ankles	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to ankle=Co-Patient
5	give up	past · passive		this idea			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
6	find	past	the princess	report		uncomfortable property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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