The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 24
And though she was quite alone, the girl's heart danced too, for she felt happier than she had since her father died.
Who acts: heart, woman, father · What happens: be, feel, have, die
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, woman, father), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 danced | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 was | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 danced | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 alone | advmod |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 danced | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 girl | case |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 danced | nsubj |
| 12 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 danced | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 felt | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 felt | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 danced | conj |
| 18 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 felt | xcomp |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happier | advcl |
| 22 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 25 died | mark |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 died | nsubj |
| 25 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 had | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the girl's heart | dance property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | woman | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | woman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | die | past | woman's father | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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