The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 14

In allowing herself to be seen, she appeared to think that she was doing all that could possibly be required of her.

Who acts: Sylvia · What happens: allow, see, appear, think, do, require · To what, where: Sylvia, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvia), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 allowing	mark
2	allowing	allow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 appeared	advcl
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 allowing	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 seen	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 seen	aux:pass
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 allowing	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 allowing	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 appeared	nsubj
9	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 think	mark
11	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 appeared	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 doing	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 doing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 doing	aux
15	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 think	ccomp
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 required	det:predet
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 required	nsubj:pass
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 required	aux
19	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	21 required	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 required	aux:pass
21	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 doing	ccomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 required	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	allow	gerund	Sylvia not said here	Sylvia		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary
2	see	to-infinitive · passive	Sylvia not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
3	appear	past	Sylvia			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Sylvia not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	past · progressive	Sylvia			tree rules
6	require	could · passive		that	of Sylvia; possibly property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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