The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 69

In vain the poor girl tried to explain how the lock of hair came into her possession; the emperor would listen to nothing, and, bowing low, she left his presence and went to consult Sunlight what she was to do.

Who acts: poor girl, lock, emperor, girl · What happens: try, explain, come, listen, bow, leave · To what, where: possession, presence, Sunlight

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 (poor girl, lock, emperor, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 vain	case
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 listen	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 vain	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 explain	mark
8	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 came	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lock	det
11	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 hair	case
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lock	nmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 explain	advcl
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 possession	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 possession	nmod:poss
17	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 vain	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 emperor	det
20	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 listen	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 listen	aux
22	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 nothing	case
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 listen	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 left	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bowing	punct
28	bowing	bow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 left	advcl
29	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 bowing	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bowing	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 left	nsubj
32	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 listen	parataxis
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 presence	nmod:poss
34	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 went	cc
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 left	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 consult	mark
38	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 went	xcomp
39	Sunlight	Sunlight	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 consult	obj
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 do	obj
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 do	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 do	cop
43	to	to	PART	_	44 do	mark
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 consult	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	the poor girl				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	explain speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the poor girl not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the lock of hair		lock's possession		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into possession=Initial_Location
4	listen	would	the emperor			to nothing; in vain	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vain=Theme
5	bow	gerund	girl not said here			low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	leave	past	girl	two's presence			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme
7	go	past	girl not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	consult	to-infinitive	girl not said here	Sunlight			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Theme
9	is	past	girl			do property	tree rules
10	possess		lock				nom possession «act 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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