The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 46
Perhaps the mistress may have thought that the girl had learnt a lesson, but, if she did, she was quite mistaken, as the work was no better done than before.
Who acts: girl, work · What happens: think, learn, do, be, not be · To what, where: mistress, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (girl, work), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 6 thought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mistress | det |
| 3 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | aux |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 learnt | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 learnt | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 learnt | aux |
| 11 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lesson | det |
| 13 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 learnt | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mistaken | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 mistaken | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 but | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 did | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 mistaken | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 mistaken | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 mistaken | cop |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 mistaken | advmod |
| 24 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 better | punct |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 better | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 work | det |
| 28 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 better | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 better | cop |
| 30 | no | no | ADV | _ | 31 better | advmod |
| 31 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 mistaken | conj |
| 32 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 better | advcl |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 before | case |
| 34 | before | before | ADV | _ | 32 done | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | may · perfect · passive | the mistress | perhaps property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | learn | past · perfect · passive | the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | girl | mistaken property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is | past | the work | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | participle | the work not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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