The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 37
They could hardly believe in their good fortune, for everything had happened exactly as they wished.
Who acts: Tulip, everything · What happens: believe, happen, wish · To what, where: good fortune
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tulip, everything), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fortune | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fortune | amod |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 happened | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 happened | mark |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happened | aux |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 believe | parataxis |
| 14 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 17 wished | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 wished | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wished | nsubj |
| 17 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happened | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | could | Tulip | Tulip's good fortune | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | everything | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wish | past | Tulip | exactly property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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