The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 73

The genius, half crazy with love, thinks of nothing night and day but how this can be done, and meanwhile she is quite safe in the island swamps of the sea.

Who acts: genius, Iliane · What happens: think, do, be · To what, where: this, island swamps

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 (genius, Iliane), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 genius	det
2	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thinks	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crazy	punct
4	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 crazy	advmod
5	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 genius	amod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 love	case
7	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crazy	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 genius	punct
9	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 night	compound
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thinks	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 day	cc
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 night	conj
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 done	cc
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 done	advmod
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 done	nsubj:pass
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 done	aux:pass
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 night	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 safe	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 safe	cc
23	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	27 safe	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 safe	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 safe	cop
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 safe	advmod
27	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thinks	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 swamps	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 swamps	det
30	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 swamps	compound
31	swamps	swamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 safe	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 sea	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sea	det
34	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 swamps	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	the genius			night		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	can · passive		this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	is	present	Iliane		the island swamps of the sea		meanwhile, safe property	tree rules

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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