English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 5

Princess Margaret was not very glad to hear of her mother's place being taken, but she did not repine but did her father's bidding.

Who acts: Princess Margaret, Margaret, father · What happens: not be, hear, take, not repine, do, bid · To what, where: place, bidding

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess Margaret, Margaret, father), 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	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Margaret	compound
2	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 glad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 glad	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 glad	advmod
6	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 glad	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 place	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 mother	case
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obl
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 taken	aux:pass
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 place	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 repine	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 repine	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 repine	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 repine	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 repine	advmod
21	repine	repine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 glad	parataxis
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 did	cc
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 repine	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bidding	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 father	case
27	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 did	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Princess Margaret		glad property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	Princess Margaret not said here		of Margaret's mother's place	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of place=Stimulus
3	take	gerund · passive		Margaret's mother's place not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»
4	not repine	past · do-support	Margaret			tree rules
5	do	past	Margaret not said here	mother's father's bidding		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
6	bid		mother's father			nom bidding «communication 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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