The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 91
He had guessed truly: the tall lady was Eglantine herself; but the other--where had he seen her?
Who acts: Becasigue · What happens: guess, be, see · To what, where: Eglantine
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becasigue), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 guessed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 guessed | aux |
| 3 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 3 guessed | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | amod |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guessed | parataxis |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Eglantine | cop |
| 10 | Eglantine | Eglantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lady | appos |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 Eglantine | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 other | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 other | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guessed | parataxis |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 seen | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 had | advmod |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 other | advcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past · perfect | Becasigue | truly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Eglantine | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Becasigue | Eglantine | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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