The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 53

And the princess’s heart grew light again, and she sat down gaily to milk them, as if she had done it every morning of her life.

Who acts: heart · What happens: grow, sit down, do · To what, where: gaily milk, milk

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 (heart), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 grew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heart	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 princess	case
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	xcomp
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 light	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
14	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 milk	amod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 milk	mark
16	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 milk	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 done	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 done	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 done	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 done	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 sat	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 done	obj
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 morning	det
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 done	obl:unmarked
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 life	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 morning	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the princess's heart			light property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	heart	gaily milk mares		down property	tree rules
3	do	past · perfect	heart	milk	morning		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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