The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 50
She was, however, very careful in her behaviour towards the other pages, whose way of life did not please her.
Who acts: princess · What happens: be, not please · To what, where: behaviour, princess
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 careful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 careful | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 careful | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 careful | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 careful | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 careful | advmod |
| 7 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 behaviour | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 behaviour | nmod:poss |
| 10 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 careful | obl |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 pages | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pages | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pages | amod |
| 14 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 careful | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pages | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 way | nmod |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 please | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 please | advmod |
| 22 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 careful | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 please | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | princess | princess's behaviour | towards the other pages the other pages the other pages's way of life's way of life; careful, however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not please | past · do-support | princess not said here | princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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