The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 28

Her father and mother were delighted to see her, as they did not feel sure that so ugly and cross-looking a man as Hábogi might not have played her some cruel trick.

Who acts: father, Hábogi, ride · What happens: be, see, not feel, cross-look, not play, trick · To what, where: ride, man, cruel trick

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Hábogi, ride), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 delighted	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 delighted	cop
6	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 delighted	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 feel	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 feel	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feel	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 feel	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 feel	advmod
15	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 delighted	advcl
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feel	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 ugly	mark
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 ugly	advmod
19	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sure	ccomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cross-looking	cc
21	cross-looking	cross-look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sure	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cross-looking	obj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 played	mark
25	Hábogi	Hábogi	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 played	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 played	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 played	advmod
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 played	aux
29	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 cross-looking	advcl
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 trick	nmod:poss
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 trick	det
32	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 trick	amod
33	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 played	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	ride's father and mother		delighted property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	ride's father and mother not said here	ride		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	not feel	past · do-support	father		sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	cross-look	gerund	father not said here	a man		tree rules
5	not play	might · perfect	Hábogi	ride's cruel trick		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
6	trick		ride			nom trick «act 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 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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