The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 37

Then, as soon as the King’s daughter was alone with her maidens, she exclaimed: ‘Now, pray make a great effort and don’t even _look_ at those spinning-wheels.’

Who acts: daughter · What happens: be, exclaim, pray, make, look, spin · To what, where: great effort

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 exclaimed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 soon	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 exclaimed	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	14 maidens	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 maidens	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 maidens	cop
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 maidens	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 maidens	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 maidens	nmod:poss
14	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 soon	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 exclaimed	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 exclaimed	nsubj
17	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 pray	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 pray	punct
20	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 pray	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Now	punct
22	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	17 exclaimed	conj
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 pray	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 effort	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 effort	amod
26	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 do	cc
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 look	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 do	advmod
30	even	even	ADV	_	32 look	advmod
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 look	punct
32	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 make	conj
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 look	punct
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 those	case
35	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 look	obl
36	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 wheels	advcl
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 spinning	punct
38	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 those	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 exclaimed	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King's daughter			as daughter's maidens; alone property	tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	daughter		then	soon property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	pray	present	daughter not said here		now		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	make	infinitive	daughter not said here	a great effort			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product
5	look	infinitive · do-support	daughter not said here			at those	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at that=Theme
6	spin	gerund	daughter not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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 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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