The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 39
She found this heavier than she expected; but then, she had never been accustomed to wear crowns, which makes all the difference.
Who acts: princess, crowns · What happens: find, expect, not accustom, wear, make · To what, where: this, princess, crowns, difference
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 (princess, crowns), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 found | xcomp |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 expected | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 expected | nsubj |
| 7 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavier | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 accustomed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 accustomed | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 accustomed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 accustomed | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 accustomed | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 accustomed | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 accustomed | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 16 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 found | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wear | mark |
| 18 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 accustomed | xcomp |
| 19 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wear | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 makes | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 makes | nsubj |
| 22 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 crowns | acl:relcl |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 difference | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 difference | det |
| 25 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 makes | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | princess | this | heavy property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||
| 2 | expect | past | princess | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not accustom | past · perfect · passive | princess | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wear | to-infinitive | crowns | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | present | crowns | all difference | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product |
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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