The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 43

But the Princess refused to be comforted, and at night, when all the inhabitants of the palace were asleep, she stole out by a back door, disguised as a peasant woman, determined to seek for her lost happiness till she found it.

Who acts: Princess, inhabitants · What happens: refuse, not comfort, be, steal out, disguise, determine · To what, where: back door, peasant woman, happiness, door

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, inhabitants), 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 refused	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 comforted	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 comforted	aux:pass
7	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 refused	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asleep	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asleep	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asleep	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asleep	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 asleep	mark
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 inhabitants	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 inhabitants	det
16	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 asleep	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 inhabitants	nmod
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 asleep	cop
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 refused	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stole	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stole	nsubj
24	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 asleep	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 stole	compound:prt
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 door	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 door	det
28	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 door	compound
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stole	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 disguised	punct
31	disguised	disguise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 door	acl
32	as	as	ADP	_	35 woman	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 woman	det
34	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 woman	amod
35	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 disguised	obl:agent
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 determined	punct
37	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 woman	acl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 seek	mark
39	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 determined	xcomp
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 lost	mark
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 lost	nsubj
42	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 seek	ccomp
43	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lost	obj
44	till	till	SCONJ	_	46 found	mark
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 found	nsubj
46	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 lost	advcl
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 found	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the Princess				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not comfort	to-infinitive · passive	the Princess not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	is	past	all inhabitants of the palace		night	asleep property	tree rules
4	steal out	past	Princess			by a back door	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by door=Location
5	disguise	participle		a back door not said here			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	determine	participle		a peasant woman not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	seek	to-infinitive					tree rules
8	lose	past	Princess	happiness			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Eventuality
9	find	past	Princess	door			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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