The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 46
This sudden appearance was so delightful that the princess could hardly believe her own eyes, and was quite beside herself with the joy of having her dear playfellow with her once more.
Who acts: sudden appearance, princess, joy · What happens: be, believe, have · To what, where: own eyes, dear playfellow
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 (sudden appearance, princess, joy), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 appearance | det |
| 2 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 appearance | amod |
| 3 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delightful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delightful | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 delightful | advmod |
| 6 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 believe | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 believe | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 believe | aux |
| 11 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 12 believe | advmod |
| 12 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 delightful | ccomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 believe | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 herself | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 herself | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 herself | cop |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 herself | advmod |
| 20 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 21 herself | case |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 believe | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 joy | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 joy | det |
| 24 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 herself | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 having | mark |
| 26 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 joy | acl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 playfellow | nmod:poss |
| 28 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 playfellow | amod |
| 29 | playfellow | playfellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 having | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 having | obl |
| 32 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 more | advmod |
| 33 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 having | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 delightful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this sudden appearance | delightful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | could | the princess | princess's own eyes | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | past | beside princess; with the joy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | gerund | the joy not said here | princess's dear playfellow | with princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playfellow=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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