Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 107
The parson's wife was so amazed she could scarce believe it.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be, believe · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 parson | det |
| 2 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 parson | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amazed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 amazed | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 amazed | advmod |
| 7 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 believe | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 believe | aux |
| 10 | scarce | scarce | ADV | _ | 11 believe | advmod |
| 11 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 amazed | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 believe | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the parson's wife | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | could | wife | last | scarce property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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