The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 11

It was very clever of her, but unluckily the horse had warned the princess what to expect, and when the house was silent, she stole very softly to the genius’s room, and exchanged his faded flowers for those she held.

Who acts: sabre, house, girl · What happens: be, warn, expect, steal, exchange, fade · To what, where: horse, princess, faded flowers

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sabre, house, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clever	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 clever	advmod
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clever	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 warned	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 warned	cc
9	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	13 warned	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 warned	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 warned	aux
13	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 clever	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 warned	obj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 expect	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 expect	mark
18	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 princess	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 silent	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 silent	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 silent	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 house	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 silent	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 silent	cop
25	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clever	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stole	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stole	nsubj
28	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	parataxis
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 softly	advmod
30	softly	softly	ADV	_	28 stole	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	35 room	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 genius	det
33	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 room	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 genius	case
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stole	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 exchanged	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 exchanged	cc
38	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 stole	conj
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 flowers	nmod:poss
40	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 flowers	amod
41	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 exchanged	obj
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 those	case
43	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 exchanged	obl
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 held	nsubj
45	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 those	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	sabre			of girl; clever property	tree rules
2	warn speech: warn	past · perfect · passive		the horse	the princess	unluckily property	tree rules
3	expect	to-infinitive		the princess			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	is	past	the house			silent property	tree rules
5	steal	past	girl			to the genius's room; softly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	exchange	past	girl not said here	hand's faded flowers		for those	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for that=Co-Theme
7	fade	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	hold	past	girl				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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