The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 25

And there was nothing for the mother to do but to submit, though she still stuck to her own opinion.

Who acts: nothing, princess · What happens: be, do, submit, stick, opine

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 (nothing, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 was	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nothing	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 submit	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 submit	mark
12	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 do	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stuck	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 stuck	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stuck	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 stuck	advmod
17	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 submit	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 opinion	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 opinion	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 opinion	amod
21	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stuck	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	nothing	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive	nothing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	submit	to-infinitive	nothing not said here				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stick	past	princess		still	to princess's own opinion	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to opinion=Co-Patient
5	opine		princess				nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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