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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 11

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But this did not seem to please Iliane, whose face was sad as she walked about the palace or gardens, wondering how it was that, while other girls did as they liked, she was always in the power of someone whom she hated.

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**Who acts:** this, face, Iliane, girls · **What happens:** not seem, please, be, walk, wonder, like · **To what, where:** Iliane, power

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, face, Iliane, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:40:11
# text = But this did not seem to please Iliane, whose face was sad as she walked about the palace or gardens, wondering how it was that, while other girls did as they liked, she was always in the power of someone whom she hated.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	Iliane	Iliane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
39	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	42	advmod	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	42	nmod	_	_
45	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	obj	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **please** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | Iliane |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus iliane=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | face |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** | past | Iliane |  |  |  |  | about the palace or gardens | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about palace=Trajectory |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past | face |  |  |  |  | do *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **like** | past | girls *= girl* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 8 | **is** | past | Iliane |  |  | the power |  | of someone; always *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **hate** | past | Iliane |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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