The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 75

The brother’s wife was overjoyed at the sight of the fruit, and when she tasted it, she declared it was the nicest she had ever eaten.

Who acts: few, fruit · What happens: overjoy, taste, declare, be, eat, sight · To what, where: wife, sight, fruit

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few, fruit), 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 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 brother	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 overjoyed	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 overjoyed	aux:pass
6	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 sight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sight	det
9	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 overjoyed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 fruit	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fruit	det
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sight	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 declared	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 declared	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 tasted	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tasted	nsubj
17	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 declared	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tasted	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tasted	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 declared	nsubj
21	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 overjoyed	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 nicest	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 nicest	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 nicest	det
25	nicest	nice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 declared	xcomp
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eaten	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 eaten	aux
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 eaten	advmod
29	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 nicest	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 overjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overjoy	past · passive		the brother's wife	the sight of the fruit			tree rules
2	taste	past	few	fruit				vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
3	declare speech: other	past	few					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	fruit				nice property	tree rules
5	eat	past · perfect	few			ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sight			the fruit				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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