The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 110
He could hardly believe his eyes when he found that the princess was not there, nor Hans either.
Who acts: king, princess · What happens: believe, find, not be · To what, where: eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, princess), 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 | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 believe | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 found | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 there | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 there | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 there | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 there | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 found | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hans | punct |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 Hans | cc |
| 18 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 believe | parataxis |
| 19 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 Hans | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | could | king | king's eyes | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | find | past | king | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | the princess | there property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/39/110/