The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 9

From that day the poor princess was put to the hardest and dirtiest work, and each morning something more disagreeable seemed to await her.

Who acts: something · What happens: put, seem, await · To what, where: poor princess, princess

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 princess	amod
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 put	aux:pass
8	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	14 work	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 work	det
11	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 work	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dirtiest	cc
13	dirtiest	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 hardest	conj
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seemed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seemed	cc
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 something	det
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 something	compound
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 seemed	nsubj
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 disagreeable	amod
21	disagreeable	disagreeable	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 something	nmod
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 put	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 await	mark
24	await	await	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 seemed	xcomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 await	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		the poor princess	day	to the hardest work	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	seem	past	something				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	await	to-infinitive	something not said here	princess			tree rules

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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