The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 68
But to her surprise she could not find it anywhere.
Who acts: princess · What happens: not find, surprise · To what, where: surprise
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 find | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 surprise | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 4 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 find | advmod |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 find | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | could | princess | surprise | to princess's surprise; anywhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | surprise | princess | nom surprise «feeling 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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