The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 23

The young Princess consented at once, and for a whole year she served as a maid; but in spite of her youth and beauty she was very badly treated, and suffered many things.

Who acts: young Princess, Princess · What happens: consent, serve, treat, suffer, spite · To what, where: Princess, spite, many things, youth

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Princess, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Princess	amod
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 consented	nsubj
4	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 consented	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 served	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 served	cc
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 year	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 year	amod
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 served	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 served	nsubj
14	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 consented	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 maid	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 maid	det
17	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 served	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 treated	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 treated	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 spite	case
21	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 treated	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 youth	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 youth	nmod:poss
24	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spite	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 beauty	cc
26	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 youth	conj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 treated	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 treated	aux
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 badly	advmod
30	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 treated	advmod
31	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 consented	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 suffered	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 suffered	cc
34	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 consented	conj
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 things	amod
36	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 suffered	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consent	past	the young Princess					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	serve	past	Princess			year	as a maid	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as maid=Attribute
3	treat	past · passive		Princess	spite of Princess's youth and beauty		badly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	suffer	past	the young Princess not said here	many things				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	spite			Princess's youth and beauty				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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