The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 71
Who would have believed a woman past ninety could walk with such speed?
Who acts: woman · What happens: believe, walk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believed | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 believed | aux |
| 4 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walk | nsubj |
| 7 | past | past | ADP | _ | 8 ninety | case |
| 8 | ninety | ninety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | nmod |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 walk | aux |
| 10 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 believed | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 speed | case |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 speed | amod |
| 13 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walk | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | would · perfect · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | walk | could | a woman past ninety | with such speed | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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