The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 95
This pleased Helga very much, for she had never had anything of her own; and she smiled quite happily as she thanked Hábogi for his present.
Who acts: pleased Helga, Helga · What happens: not have, smile, thank · To what, where: anything, Hábogi
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleased Helga, Helga), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Helga | nsubj |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Helga | amod |
| 3 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 Helga | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 had | advmod |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 own | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 own | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 anything | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 smiled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 smiled | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 smiled | nsubj |
| 19 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | parataxis |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 happily | advmod |
| 21 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 19 smiled | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 thanked | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thanked | nsubj |
| 24 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 smiled | advcl |
| 25 | Hábogi | Hábogi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 thanked | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 present | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 present | nmod:poss |
| 28 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thanked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past · perfect | pleased Helga | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | Helga | happily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | Helga | Hábogi | for heart's present | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent hábogi=Theme for present=Attribute |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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