The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 20

No one would ever have guessed that that little black box could have held such a quantity of beautiful things!

What happens: guess, hold · To what, where: one, black box

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guessed	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 guessed	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 guessed	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 guessed	aux
6	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 held	mark
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 box	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 black	amod
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 box	amod
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	nsubj:pass
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 held	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 held	aux
14	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 guessed	advcl
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 quantity	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 quantity	det
17	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 things	case
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 quantity	nmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	would · perfect · passive		no one			ever		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	hold	could · perfect · passive		that black box					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme quantity=Eventuality

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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