The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 60
She had hardly expected to succeed so soon, and she at once set about her preparations.
Who acts: queen · What happens: expect, succeed, prepare · To what, where: queen
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 expected | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 expected | advmod |
| 4 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 succeed | mark |
| 6 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 expected | xcomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 succeed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 set | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 set | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 set | advmod |
| 14 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expected | parataxis |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 preparations | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 preparations | nmod:poss |
| 17 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 set | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past · perfect · passive | queen | hardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | succeed not said to happen | to-infinitive | queen not said here | soon property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | prepare | queen | nom preparation «act 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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