The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 11

But this did not seem to please Iliane, whose face was sad as she walked about the palace or gardens, wondering how it was that, while other girls did as they liked, she was always in the power of someone whom she hated.

Who acts: this, face, Iliane, girls · What happens: not seem, please, be, walk, wonder, like · To what, where: Iliane, power

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, face, Iliane, girls), 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	_	5 seem	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 seem	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seem	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 seem	advmod
5	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 please	mark
7	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seem	xcomp
8	Iliane	Iliane	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 please	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sad	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sad	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sad	cop
13	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Iliane	parataxis
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 walked	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 walked	nsubj
16	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sad	advcl
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walked	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 gardens	cc
21	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 palace	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wondering	punct
23	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 seem	conj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 did	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 did	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 did	cop
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 did	mark
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 did	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 did	mark
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 girls	amod
31	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 did	nsubj
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wondering	advcl
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 liked	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 liked	nsubj
35	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 did	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 power	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 power	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 power	cop
39	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	42 power	advmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 power	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 power	det
42	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 did	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 someone	case
44	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	42 power	nmod
45	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 hated	obj
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 hated	nsubj
47	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 someone	acl:relcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not seem	past · do-support	this				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	please	to-infinitive	this not said here	Iliane			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus iliane=Experiencer
3	is	past	face			sad property	tree rules
4	walk	past	Iliane			about the palace or gardens	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about palace=Trajectory
5	wonder speech: ask	gerund	this not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	face			do property	tree rules
7	like	past	girls = girl				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	is	past	Iliane		the power	of someone; always property	tree rules
9	hate	past	Iliane				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus

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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