The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 24

But she could do nothing as long as the emperor remained with his wife night and day, and she began to wonder what she could do to get him away from her.

Who acts: mother, emperor · What happens: do, remain, begin, wonder, get · To what, where: nothing, emperor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, emperor), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 do	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 do	obj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 do	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 remained	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 emperor	det
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remained	nsubj
11	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 long	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 night	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 night	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 night	compound
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remained	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 day	cc
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 night	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 wonder	mark
23	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 do	obj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wonder	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 do	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 get	obj
31	away	away	ADV	_	29 get	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 away	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	could	mother	nothing		long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	remain	past	the emperor		night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	mother				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	mother not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	could	mother				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	get	to-infinitive	mother not said here	emperor		away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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