The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 16

But their manners were so good that no one would ever had guessed that.

Who acts: manners · What happens: be, guess · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manners), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 good	cc
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 manners	nmod:poss
3	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 good	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 guessed	mark
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 guessed	nsubj:pass
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 guessed	aux
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 guessed	advmod
12	had	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 guessed	aux
13	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 good	advcl
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 guessed	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sorts's manners					good property	tree rules
2	guess	would · perfect · passive		no one			ever		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme that=Eventuality

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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