The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 13

And because it was more difficult for beautiful women to pass unheeded than for others, she bade her fetch a wooden helmet out of the next room, and put it on her head, and pull it low down over her brows, so that nearly the whole of her face should lie in its shadow.

Who acts: beautiful women, girl, whole, world · What happens: be, pass, bade, fetch, put, pull · To what, where: daughter, wooden helmet, next room, helmet, head, brows

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful women, girl, whole, world), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 difficult	cc
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 difficult	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 difficult	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 difficult	cop
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 difficult	advmod
6	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 pass	mark
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 women	amod
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pass	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pass	mark
11	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 difficult	advcl
12	unheeded	unheeded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pass	xcomp
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 others	case
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 others	case
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 unheeded	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bade	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bade	nsubj
18	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 difficult	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bade	obj
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bade	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 helmet	det
22	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 helmet	amod
23	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fetch	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	28 room	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 room	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 room	det
27	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 room	amod
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fetch	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 put	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fetch	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pull	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 pull	cc
38	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fetch	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 pull	obj
40	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 down	advmod
41	down	down	ADV	_	38 pull	advmod
42	over	over	ADP	_	44 brows	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 brows	nmod:poss
44	brows	brow	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 pull	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 whole	punct
46	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	50 whole	mark
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 so	fixed
48	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	50 whole	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 whole	det
50	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 lie	nsubj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 face	case
52	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 face	nmod:poss
53	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 whole	obl
54	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 lie	aux
55	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 pull	conj
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 shadow	case
57	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 shadow	nmod:poss
58	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 lie	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				difficult property	tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	beautiful women			unheeded property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bade	past	girl	daughter			tree rules
4	fetch	infinitive	girl not said here	a wooden helmet	the next room		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme
5	put	infinitive	girl not said here	helmet	girl's head		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on head=Destination
6	pull	infinitive	girl not said here	helmet	girl's brows	down property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	lie	should	the whole		world's shadow		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shadow=Location
8	shadow		world				nom shadow «state 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 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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