The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 54

The days passed on, and one morning the second princess implored her father to allow her to try the adventure in which her sister had made such a failure.

Who acts: second princess · What happens: pass on, implore, allow, try, make · To what, where: days, father, girl, adventure, sister

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second princess), 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 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj:pass
3	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 passed	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 implored	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 implored	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 morning	nummod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 implored	obl:unmarked
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 princess	amod
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 implored	nsubj
12	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 implored	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 allow	mark
16	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 implored	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 allow	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 try	mark
19	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 allow	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 adventure	det
21	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 try	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 made	obl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sister	nmod:poss
25	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 adventure	acl:relcl
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 failure	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 failure	det
30	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	pass on	participle · passive		the days				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	implore	past	the second princess		girl's father		morning	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	allow	to-infinitive	the second princess not said here		girl			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	the second princess not said here	the adventure				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Eventuality
5	make	past · perfect · passive		girl's sister		the adventure		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary failure=Product

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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