The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 94

She made her plans with all the secrecy she could, but when great armies are collected people are apt to suspect a storm is brewing, and of course it is very difficult to keep anything hidden from fairy godmothers.

Who acts: Aveline, collected people, storm · What happens: make, collect, be, suspect, brew, keep · To what, where: plans, great armies, anything

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aveline, collected people, storm), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 plans	nmod:poss
4	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 secrecy	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 secrecy	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 secrecy	det
8	secrecy	secrecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 could	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 secrecy	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 apt	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 apt	cc
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 collected	mark
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 armies	amod
15	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 collected	nsubj:pass
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 collected	aux:pass
17	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 people	amod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 apt	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 apt	cop
20	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 suspect	mark
22	suspect	suspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 apt	csubj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 storm	det
24	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brewing	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 brewing	aux
26	brewing	brew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 suspect	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 difficult	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 difficult	cc
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 difficult	mark
30	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 of	fixed
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 difficult	expl
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 difficult	cop
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 difficult	advmod
34	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 keep	mark
36	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 difficult	csubj
37	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	36 keep	obj
38	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 keep	xcomp
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 godmothers	case
40	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 godmothers	amod
41	godmothers	godmother	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 hidden	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	Aveline	Aveline's plans	with all secrecy	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Product
2	collect	present · passive		great armies		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	present	collected people		apt property	tree rules
4	suspect	to-infinitive				vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	brew	present · progressive	a storm			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	present			difficult property	tree rules
7	keep	to-infinitive		anything	hidden property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
8	plan		Aveline			nom plan «cognition 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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