The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 149
But the pleasure of taking a letter which was not meant for her was more than she could resist, and in another moment it was in her hand.
Who acts: pleasure, letter, corner · What happens: take, not mean, be, resist · To what, where: letter, hand
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure, letter, corner), 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 | _ | 3 pleasure | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pleasure | det |
| 3 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 taking | mark |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 pleasure | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 letter | det |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 more | nsubj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 meant | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 meant | advmod |
| 11 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 letter | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 meant | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 more | cop |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 taking | obj |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 resist | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 resist | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 resist | aux |
| 19 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 more | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hand | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hand | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 moment | case |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 moment | det |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hand | obl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 hand | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleasure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | the pleasure not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not mean | past · passive | a letter | for corner | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for she=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a letter | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | resist | could | corner | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | past | letter | corner's hand | moment | tree rules |
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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