The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 11

And as she was afraid that no housewife would want to engage a girl with such a pretty face, she determined to make herself as ugly as she could.

Who acts: Princess, housewife · What happens: be, want, engage, determine, make · To what, where: girl, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, housewife), 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	_	22 determined	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 afraid	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 afraid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 afraid	cop
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 determined	advcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 want	mark
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 housewife	det
8	housewife	housewife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 want	aux
10	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 afraid	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 engage	mark
12	engage	engage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 want	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 engage	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 face	case
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 face	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 face	det
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 face	amod
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 engage	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 afraid	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 determined	nsubj
22	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	to	to	PART	_	24 make	mark
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 determined	xcomp
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 make	obj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 ugly	advmod
27	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 make	xcomp
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 could	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 could	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 ugly	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Princess		afraid property	tree rules
2	want	would	no housewife			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	engage not said to happen	to-infinitive	no housewife not said here	a girl	with such pretty face	tree rules
4	determine	past	Princess			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	make	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	Princess	ugly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product

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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