The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 54

The love of the emperor for Iliane waxed greater day by day, but she paid no heed to him, and always had an excuse ready to put off their marriage.

Who acts: love, excuse, mares · What happens: wax, pay, have, put off, love, marry · To what, where: heed, emperor, excuse, marriage

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 (love, excuse, mares), 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	2 love	det
2	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waxed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 emperor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 emperor	det
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 love	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Iliane	case
7	Iliane	Iliane	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 emperor	nmod
8	waxed	wax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waxed	obl:unmarked
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 day	case
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waxed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 paid	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 paid	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 paid	nsubj
16	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waxed	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 heed	det
18	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paid	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 paid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 had	advmod
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waxed	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 excuse	det
26	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
27	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 had	xcomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 put	mark
29	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ready	xcomp
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 put	compound:prt
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 marriage	nmod:poss
32	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 waxed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wax	past	the love of the emperor for Iliane			day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pay	past	love	no heed	emperor			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
3	have	past	the love of the emperor for Iliane not said here	a excuse			always, ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Patient
4	put off	to-infinitive	a excuse not said here	mares's marriage				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent marriage=Goal
5	love			the emperor for Iliane				nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	marry		mares = mare					nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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