The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 19

But the princess, suspecting a trap, inquired roughly why they were wasting the precious hours in the garden, when, as men, they should be in the stables looking after their horses.

Who acts: princess, genius, stables · What happens: suspect, inquire, waste, be, look · To what, where: trap, princess, men, garden, stables

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 (princess, genius, stables), 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	_	9 inquired	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inquired	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 suspecting	punct
5	suspecting	suspect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 princess	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trap	det
7	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suspecting	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 inquired	punct
9	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	11 why	advmod
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 wasting	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wasting	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wasting	aux
14	wasting	waste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 inquired	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hours	det
16	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hours	amod
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wasting	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 garden	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 garden	det
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wasting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 when	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 wasting	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 men	punct
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 men	case
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wasting	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stables	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stables	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 stables	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 stables	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 stables	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stables	det
32	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 men	nmod
33	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 stables	acl
34	after	after	ADP	_	36 horses	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 horses	nmod:poss
36	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 looking	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	suspect	gerund	the princess not said here	a trap			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent trap=Attribute
2	inquire speech: other	participle · passive		the princess			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	waste	past · progressive	genius	men	the garden	hour	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
4	is	should	genius		the stables		tree rules
5	look	gerund	the stables not said here			after genius's horses	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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