The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 19

In spite, however, of all her care the fame of her beauty spread abroad: many of the impudent young men that are always to be found in the world stole softly up behind her while she was at work, and tried to lift off the wooden helmet.

Who acts: beauty, many, girl · What happens: care, spread, find, steal, be, try · To what, where: fame, spite, impudent young men, world, work, wooden helmet

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 (beauty, many, girl), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 care	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spite	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	9 care	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 care	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 care	det:predet
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 care	nmod:poss
9	care	care	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fame	det
11	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 care	obj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 spread	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 beauty	nmod:poss
14	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spread	nsubj
15	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fame	acl:relcl
16	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	15 spread	advmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 stole	punct
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stole	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 men	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 men	det
21	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 men	amod
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 men	amod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 many	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 found	obj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 found	aux:pass
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 found	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	29 found	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 found	aux:pass
29	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 men	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 found	obl
33	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 care	parataxis
34	softly	softly	ADV	_	35 up	advmod
35	up	up	ADV	_	33 stole	advmod
36	behind	behind	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stole	obl
38	while	while	SCONJ	_	42 work	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 work	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 work	cop
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 work	case
42	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stole	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 tried	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 tried	cc
45	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stole	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 lift	mark
47	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 tried	xcomp
48	off	off	ADP	_	47 lift	compound:prt
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 helmet	det
50	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 helmet	amod
51	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 lift	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	care	imperative		the fame	spite	however property	tree rules
2	spread	past	girl's beauty	the fame not said here		abroad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fame=Theme
3	find	present · passive	many of the impudent young men not said here	the impudent young men	the world	always property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: that=Topic
4	steal	past	many of the impudent young men			behind girl	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind she=Location
5	is	past	girl		work		tree rules
6	try	past	many of the impudent young men not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	lift off not said to happen	to-infinitive	many of the impudent young men not said here	the wooden helmet			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme

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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