The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 34
The girl could scarcely believe her good fortune, and, in gratitude for all the kindness shown her, was so useful and pleasant to her husband’s parents that they soon loved her.
Who acts: girl, gratitude, riches · What happens: believe, show, be, love · To what, where: good fortune, kindness, girl
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, gratitude, riches), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fortune | amod |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 useful | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 useful | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gratitude | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 gratitude | case |
| 13 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 useful | nsubj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 kindness | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 kindness | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kindness | det |
| 17 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gratitude | nmod |
| 18 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 kindness | acl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shown | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gratitude | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 useful | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 useful | advmod |
| 23 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pleasant | cc |
| 25 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 useful | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 parents | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 husband | nmod:poss |
| 28 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 parents | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 husband | case |
| 30 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 useful | obl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 loved | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 loved | nsubj |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 loved | advmod |
| 34 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 useful | advcl |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 loved | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | could | the girl | girl's good fortune | scarcely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fortune=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | show | participle | all kindness not said here | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | gratitude for all kindness | to girl's husband's parents; useful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | gratitude for all kindness not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | love | past | riches = rich | girl | soon property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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