The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 49
Diamantina was very fond of being on the river, and she was delighted at this chance of delighting her tastes.
Who acts: Diamantina, chance · What happens: be, delight, taste · To what, where: chance, tastes
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Diamantina, chance), 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 | Diamantina | Diamantina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fond | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 fond | advmod |
| 4 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 river | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fond | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 delighted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 delighted | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 delighted | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 delighted | cop |
| 14 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fond | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 chance | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 chance | det |
| 17 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 delighted | obl |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 delighting | mark |
| 19 | delighting | delight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 chance | acl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tastes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tastes | taste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 delighting | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Diamantina | fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | of the river | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Diamantina | this chance | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | delight | gerund | this chance not said here | Diamantina's tastes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus taste=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | taste | Diamantina | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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