The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 16
How could he have imagined that the quiet, gentle girl who had been so charming a companion to him during the first days of their marriage, could have become in a day the rude, sulky woman, who could not control her temper even to benefit herself.
Who acts: prince, quiet gentle girl, rude sulky woman, thoughts, woman · What happens: imagine, charm, become, not control, benefit, marry · To what, where: companion, prince, quiet gentle girl, temper, woman
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, quiet gentle girl, rude sulky woman, thoughts), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 imagined | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagined | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 imagined | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 imagined | aux |
| 5 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 girl | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 quiet | punct |
| 10 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 imagined | parataxis |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 charming | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 charming | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 charming | aux |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 charming | advmod |
| 16 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 girl | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 companion | det |
| 18 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 charming | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 charming | obl |
| 21 | during | during | ADP | _ | 24 days | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 days | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 days | amod |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 charming | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 marriage | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 27 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 days | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 become | punct |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 become | aux |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 become | aux |
| 31 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 girl | acl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 day | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 day | det |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 become | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 woman | det |
| 36 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 woman | amod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rude | punct |
| 38 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 woman | amod |
| 39 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 day | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 control | punct |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 control | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 control | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 control | advmod |
| 44 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 woman | acl:relcl |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 temper | nmod:poss |
| 46 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 control | obj |
| 47 | even | even | ADV | _ | 49 benefit | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 benefit | mark |
| 49 | benefit | benefit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 control | advcl |
| 50 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 49 benefit | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | could · perfect | prince | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | charm | past · perfect · progressive | the quiet gentle girl | a companion | prince | day | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus companion=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | become | could · perfect | the quiet gentle girl not said here | day | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not control | could | the rude sulky woman | woman's temper | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Theme | ||||
| 5 | benefit | to-infinitive | the rude sulky woman not said here | woman | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer herself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | marry | thoughts = thought | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | temper | woman | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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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