The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 18
However, her mother did not know that, but thought her the most bewitching maiden that ever was seen.
Who acts: mother · What happens: not know, think, bewitch, see · To what, where: that, mother, bewitching maiden
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 know | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 know | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 bewitching | advmod |
| 15 | bewitching | bewitch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 maiden | amod |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 seen | advmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | woman's mother | that | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | woman's mother not said here | mother | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bewitch | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | see | past · passive | the bewitching maiden | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «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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