The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 53
For she knew far too well what was due to herself and her relations, to appear at Court as if she was a mere nobody.
Who acts: frog · What happens: know, be, appear · To what, where: Court
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 knew | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | advmod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 what | advmod |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 herself | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 herself | cop |
| 9 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 herself | amod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 knew | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 relations | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 relations | nmod:poss |
| 14 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 herself | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appear | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 appear | mark |
| 17 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Court | case |
| 19 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appear | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 26 nobody | case |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 as | fixed |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 nobody | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 nobody | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 nobody | det |
| 25 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 nobody | amod |
| 26 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 appear | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | frog | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | to frog | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | appear | to-infinitive | frog not said here | Court | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | frog | as nobody | tree rules |
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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