The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 8

But the girl declared that she must first make her horse comfortable in his stable; but this was really only an excuse, as she wanted to ask his advice on several matters.

Who acts: girl, this · What happens: declare, make, be, want, ask · To what, where: horse, stable, excuse, advice, several matters · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl, this), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 declared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	nsubj
4	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 make	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 declared	ccomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horse	nmod:poss
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 make	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 stable	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 stable	nmod:poss
15	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 make	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 excuse	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 excuse	cc
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 excuse	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 excuse	cop
20	really	really	ADV	_	23 excuse	advmod
21	only	only	ADV	_	23 excuse	advmod
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 excuse	det
23	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wanted	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 wanted	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wanted	nsubj
27	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 ask	mark
29	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wanted	xcomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 advice	nmod:poss
31	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ask	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 matters	case
33	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 matters	amod
34	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ask	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the girl				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	must	girl	girl's horse	other's stable	comfortable, first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Product
3	is a	past	this	a excuse			tree rules
4	want	past	girl				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here	other's advice	several matters		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient

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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