The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 38

By the advice of Sunlight, she took care not to let them see her, and climbed a thick tree, where she could see and hear without being seen herself.

Who acts: princess, hands · What happens: take, not let, see, climb, hear · To what, where: care, hands, princess, thick tree

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 (princess, hands), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 advice	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 advice	det
3	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Sunlight	case
5	Sunlight	Sunlight	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 advice	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 advice	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 let	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 let	mark
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 took	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 climbed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 climbed	cc
18	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tree	det
20	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tree	amod
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 climbed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 see	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 climbed	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hear	cc
28	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 see	conj
29	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 seen	mark
30	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 seen	aux:pass
31	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hear	advcl
32	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 seen	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	princess	care	by the advice of Sunlight	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	not let	to-infinitive	princess not said here	hands = hand		tree rules
3	see	infinitive	hands = hand not said here	princess		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	climb	past		a thick tree		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
5	see	could	princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	hear	infinitive	princess not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
7	see	gerund · passive	princess not said here	princess		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: herself=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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