The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 75
But punishments are things about which people do not always agree, and when the princess suddenly felt she was really the man she had pretended to be, she was delighted, and if the hermit had only been within reach she would have thanked him from her heart.
Who acts: punishments, people, princess, hermit · What happens: be, not agree, feel, pretend, thank · To what, where: things, man, hermit, heart
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 (punishments, people, princess, hermit), 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 | _ | 4 things | cc |
| 2 | punishments | punishment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 things | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 things | cop |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 agree | obl |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 agree | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 agree | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 agree | advmod |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 agree | advmod |
| 11 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 things | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 felt | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 princess | det |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 18 felt | advmod |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 agree | parataxis |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 man | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 man | cop |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 man | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | ccomp |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pretended | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 pretended | aux |
| 26 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 man | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 be | mark |
| 28 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 pretended | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 delighted | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 delighted | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 delighted | cop |
| 32 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 thanked | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 thanked | cc |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 reach | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hermit | det |
| 37 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 reach | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 reach | aux |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 42 reach | advmod |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 reach | cop |
| 41 | within | within | ADP | _ | 42 reach | case |
| 42 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 thanked | advcl |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 thanked | nsubj |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 thanked | aux |
| 45 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 thanked | aux |
| 46 | thanked | thank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 felt | conj |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 thanked | obj |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 heart | case |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 heart | nmod:poss |
| 50 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 thanked | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 things | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | punishments | things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not agree speech: agree | present · do-support | people | about things; always property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about which=Topic | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | the princess | suddenly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | princess | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pretend | past · perfect | princess | the man not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | princess | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | the hermit | within reach | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | thank speech: thank | would · perfect | princess | hermit | princess's heart | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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