The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 14

The girl did as she was bid, and her beauty was so hidden beneath the wooden cap, which covered up all her hair, that she might have gone through any crowd, and no one would have looked twice at her.

Who acts: girl, beauty, wooden cap · What happens: do, bid, be, cover up, go, look · To what, where: girl, crowd, one

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 (girl, beauty, wooden cap), 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	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 bid	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bid	aux:pass
7	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hidden	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hidden	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 beauty	nmod:poss
11	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hidden	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hidden	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 hidden	advmod
14	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	conj
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	18 cap	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cap	det
17	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cap	amod
18	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hidden	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 covered	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 covered	nsubj
21	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cap	acl:relcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 covered	compound:prt
23	all	all	ADP	_	25 hair	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hair	nmod:poss
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 covered	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gone	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 gone	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gone	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 gone	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 gone	aux
31	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 did	conj
32	through	through	ADP	_	34 crowd	case
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 crowd	det
34	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gone	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 looked	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 looked	cc
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 one	det
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 looked	nsubj:pass
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 looked	aux
40	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 looked	aux
41	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 gone	conj
42	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 looked	advmod
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 her	case
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 looked	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the girl				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past · passive		girl			tree rules
3	is	past	girl's beauty			beneath the wooden cap; hidden property	tree rules
4	cover up	past	the wooden cap			all girl's hair	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	go	might · perfect	girl		any crowd		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through crowd=Initial_Location
6	look	would · perfect · passive		no one		at girl; twice property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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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