The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 60
The bride seemed full of interest in the houses, and asked a great many questions about them, so that her new relations liked her much better than they expected, and hoped they might be good friends.
Who acts: bride, new relations, relations · What happens: seem, ask, like, expect, hope, be · To what, where: great many questions, bride, good friends · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, new relations, relations), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bride | det |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 interest | case |
| 6 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 houses | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 houses | det |
| 9 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 interest | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 questions | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 questions | amod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 questions | amod |
| 16 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 asked | obj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 questions | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 liked | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 liked | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 relations | nmod:poss |
| 23 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 relations | amod |
| 24 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 liked | nsubj |
| 25 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 liked | obj |
| 27 | much | much | ADV | _ | 28 better | advmod |
| 28 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 liked | ccomp |
| 29 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 31 expected | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 expected | nsubj |
| 31 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 better | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hoped | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hoped | cc |
| 34 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 friends | nsubj |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 friends | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 friends | cop |
| 38 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 friends | amod |
| 39 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 hoped | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the bride | full property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a great many questions | about questions = question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient about they=Topic | ||||
| 3 | like | past | bride's new relations | bride | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | expect | past | relations = relation | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hope | past | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 6 | is a | might | relations = relation | good friends | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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