The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 15
The maiden listened attentively and wondered in herself whether what he said was true.
Who acts: maiden, Peter · What happens: listen, wonder, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, Peter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 3 listened | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wondered | cc |
| 6 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 herself | case |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 wondered | obl |
| 9 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 true | mark |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 true | nsubj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 true | cop |
| 14 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wondered | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the maiden | attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | the maiden not said here | in maiden | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | true property | tree rules |
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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