The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 20

She was actually expected to choose her own dresses, to take care of her jewels, and to find her own amusements; but rather than take so much trouble she wore the same old frock from morning till night, and never appeared in public if she could possibly avoid it.

Who acts: trouble · What happens: expect, choose, take, find, wear, not appear · To what, where: trouble, own dresses, care, own amusements, much trouble, same old frock

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 expected	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 expected	aux:pass
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 expected	advmod
4	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 choose	mark
6	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 expected	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dresses	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dresses	amod
9	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 choose	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 take	mark
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 choose	conj
13	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 jewels	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 jewels	nmod:poss
16	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 take	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 find	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 find	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 take	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 amusements	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 amusements	amod
23	amusements	amusement	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 find	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 take	cc
26	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	28 take	cc
27	than	than	ADP	_	26 rather	fixed
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 expected	conj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 trouble	amod
31	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wore	nsubj
33	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 trouble	acl:relcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 frock	det
35	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 frock	amod
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 frock	amod
37	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wore	obj
38	from	from	ADP	_	39 morning	case
39	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 frock	nmod
40	till	till	ADP	_	41 night	case
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 appeared	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 appeared	cc
44	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	45 appeared	advmod
45	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 take	parataxis
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 public	case
47	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 appeared	obl
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 avoid	mark
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 avoid	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 avoid	aux
51	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	52 avoid	advmod
52	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 appeared	advcl
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 avoid	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	past · passive		trouble			actually property	tree rules
2	choose not said to happen	to-infinitive	trouble not said here	trouble's own dresses				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
3	take	to-infinitive	trouble not said here	care			of trouble's jewels	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of jewel=Initial_Location
4	find	to-infinitive	trouble not said here	trouble's own amusements				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amusement=Topic
5	take	infinitive		much trouble		night		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme
6	wear	past	trouble	the same old frock		from morning		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent frock=Theme
7	not appear	past			public			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in public=Location
8	avoid a condition, not said to happen	could	trouble	frock			possibly property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location
9	amuse		trouble					nom amusement «feeling 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 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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