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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 15

She hesitated a while, however, scarcely able to believe her eyes, and not knowing if she should enter the enchanted spot or fly from it.

Who acts: princess · What happens: hesitate, believe, not know, enter, enchant, fly · To what, where: eyes, enchanted spot, spot

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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

nsubjdetobjpunctadvmodpunctadvmodadvclmarkxcompnmod:possobjpunctccadvmodadvclmarknsubjauxxcompdetamodobjccconjcaseoblpunctrootShePRONhesitatedVERBaDETwhileNOUN,PUNCThoweverADV,PUNCTscarcelyADVableADJtoPARTbelieveVERBherPRONeyesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJnotPARTknowingVERBifSCONJshePRONshouldAUXenterVERBtheDETenchantedVERBspotNOUNorCCONJflyVERBfromADPitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 hesitatednsubj
2hesitatedhesitateVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 whiledet
4whilewhileNOUNNumber=Sing2 hesitatedobj
5,,PUNCT_9 ablepunct
6howeverhoweverADV_9 ableadvmod
7,,PUNCT_9 ablepunct
8scarcelyscarcelyADV_9 ableadvmod
9ableableADJDegree=Pos2 hesitatedadvcl
10totoPART_11 believemark
11believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Inf9 ablexcomp
12herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 eyesnmod:poss
13eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur11 believeobj
14,,PUNCT_17 knowingpunct
15andandCCONJ_17 knowingcc
16notnotPARTPolarity=Neg17 knowingadvmod
17knowingknowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 hesitatedadvcl
18ififSCONJ_21 entermark
19sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 enternsubj
20shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin21 enteraux
21enterenterVERBVerbForm=Inf17 knowingxcomp
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 spotdet
23enchantedenchantVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 spotamod
24spotspotNOUNNumber=Sing21 enterobj
25ororCCONJ_26 flycc
26flyflyVERBVerbForm=Inf21 enterconj
27fromfromADP_28 itcase
28ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 flyobl
29..PUNCT_2 hesitatedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hesitatepastprincesswhilevn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2believeto-infinitiveprincess not said hereprincess's eyesvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
3not knowgerundprincess not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4enter a condition, not said to happenshouldprincessthe enchanted spotvn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spot=Destination
5enchantparticiplevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6flyinfinitiveprincess not said herespotvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory

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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