The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 109

For weeks all the mothers and all the daughters in the land were busy preparing beautiful dresses and trying new ways of putting up their hair, and the three lovely daughters of Dotterine’s mistress were as much excited as the rest.

Who acts: new ways, three lovely daughters · What happens: be, prepare, try, put up · To what, where: beautiful dresses, new ways, hair

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new ways, three lovely daughters), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 weeks	case
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 busy	obl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 mothers	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mothers	det
5	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 weeks	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 daughters	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 daughters	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 daughters	det
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mothers	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 land	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 land	det
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 daughters	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 busy	cop
14	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 busy	advcl
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dresses	amod
17	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 preparing	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 trying	cc
19	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 preparing	conj
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ways	amod
21	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 trying	obj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 putting	mark
23	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 ways	acl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 putting	compound:prt
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hair	nmod:poss
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 putting	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 excited	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 excited	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 daughters	det
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 daughters	nummod
31	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 daughters	amod
32	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 excited	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 mistress	case
34	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 mistress	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Dotterine	case
36	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 daughters	nmod
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 excited	cop
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 much	advmod
39	much	much	ADV	_	40 excited	advmod
40	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 busy	conj
41	as	as	ADP	_	43 rest	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 rest	det
43	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 excited	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 busy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			week	busy property	tree rules
2	prepare	gerund		beautiful dresses			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient
3	try	gerund		new ways			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
4	put up	gerund	new ways not said here	maidens's hair			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hair=Goal
5	is	past	the three lovely daughters of Dotterine's mistress			as the rest; excited property	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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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