The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 50

The hardest tasks were always given to her, and long before the two years were up, she would be worn out and useless.

Who acts: two years · What happens: give, be up, wear out · To what, where: hardest tasks, princess

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 (two years), 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	3 tasks	det
2	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 tasks	amod
3	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 given	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux:pass
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 given	advmod
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 given	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 long	cc
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 given	advmod
12	before	before	ADP	_	15 years	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 years	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 long	obl
16	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 years	acl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 were	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 worn	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 worn	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 worn	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 worn	aux:pass
22	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 given	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 worn	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 useless	cc
25	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 worn	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		the hardest tasks	princess	always, long property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient
2	be up	past	the two years not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wear out	would · passive		princess			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

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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