The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 86

Was this really the quiet girl who had been so anxious to learn all he could teach her, or was it somebody else?

Who acts: this, quiet girl, all, part · What happens: be, learn, teach · To what, where: quiet girl, girl, somebody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, quiet girl, all, part), 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 girl	cop
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 girl	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	6 girl	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 anxious	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 anxious	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 anxious	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 anxious	advmod
11	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 learn	mark
13	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 anxious	advcl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 teach	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 teach	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 teach	aux
17	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 learn	ccomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 teach	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 somebody	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 somebody	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 somebody	cop
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 somebody	nsubj
23	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 girl	parataxis
24	else	else	ADV	_	23 somebody	advmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 girl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	the quiet girl			tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	the quiet girl			anxious property	tree rules
3	learn	to-infinitive	the quiet girl not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	teach speech: other	could	all		girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	is a	past	part	somebody		else property	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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