The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 82

The child was so delighted that he could hardly believe his eyes, so he tried it seven times, and each time it slipped in more easily than before.

Who acts: child, sword · What happens: be, believe, try, slip · To what, where: eyes, sword

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, sword), 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 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 delighted	advmod
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 believe	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 believe	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 believe	aux
9	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	10 believe	advmod
10	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 delighted	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 believe	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tried	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 tried	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tried	nsubj
16	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tried	obj
18	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 times	nummod
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tried	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 slipped	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 slipped	cc
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 slipped	obl:unmarked
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 slipped	nsubj
25	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	parataxis
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 more	case
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 slipped	obl
28	easily	easily	ADV	_	25 slipped	advmod
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 before	case
30	before	before	ADV	_	28 easily	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the child			delighted property	tree rules
2	believe	could	child	child's eyes		hardly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
3	try	past	child	sword	time		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	slip	past	sword		time	in more; easily property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in more=Attribute

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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