The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 45

Ring was quite deceived by her, and never guessed that she was not Princess Signy at all, but a strong, gigantic, wicked witch bent on deceiving him under a beautiful shape.

Who acts: Signy · What happens: deceive, not guess, not be, bend · To what, where: Ring, all, Princess Signy, strong gigantic wicked witch, beautiful shape

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Signy), 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	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deceived	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deceived	aux:pass
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 deceived	advmod
4	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 deceived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 guessed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 guessed	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 guessed	advmod
10	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deceived	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 Signy	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Signy	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Signy	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 Signy	advmod
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Signy	compound
16	Signy	Signy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 guessed	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 guessed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 witch	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 witch	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 witch	det
22	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 witch	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 strong	punct
24	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 witch	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gigantic	punct
26	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 witch	amod
27	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deceived	parataxis
28	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 witch	acl
29	on	on	SCONJ	_	30 deceiving	mark
30	deceiving	deceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 bent	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 deceiving	obj
32	under	under	ADP	_	35 shape	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 shape	det
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 shape	amod
35	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 deceiving	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 deceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	deceive	past · passive	Signy	Ring		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	not guess	past	Signy not said here		all	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at all=Value
3	not is a	past	Signy	Princess Signy		tree rules
4	bend	participle		a strong gigantic wicked witch not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	deceive	gerund		Ring	a beautiful shape	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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