The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 51
One day, however, she had been amusing herself by making sweetmeats, when two of the young princes looked in to pay her a visit.
Who acts: princess, two · What happens: amuse, make, look, pay · To what, where: princess, sweetmeats
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, two), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 amusing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 amusing | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 amusing | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 amusing | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 amusing | aux |
| 9 | amusing | amuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 amusing | obj |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 making | mark |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 amusing | advcl |
| 13 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 making | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 looked | advmod |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 princes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princes | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 princes | amod |
| 20 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 two | nmod |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 amusing | conj |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 pay | mark |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 pay | mark |
| 24 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 looked | xcomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pay | obj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 visit | det |
| 27 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pay | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 amusing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | past · perfect · progressive | princess | princess | day | however property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | make | gerund | princess not said here | sweetmeats | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sweetmeat=Product | ||||
| 3 | look | past | two of the young princes | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pay | to-infinitive | two of the young princes not said here | princess | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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