The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 97
The girl was surprised at his words, for she did not know that he could be anything but a hoodie at all times.
Who acts: girl, man · What happens: be, not know, word · To what, where: words, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, man), 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 | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | cop |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 surprised | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surprised | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 anything | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 anything | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 anything | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 anything | cop |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 know | ccomp |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 hoodie | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hoodie | det |
| 21 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 anything | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 times | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 times | det |
| 24 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hoodie | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the girl | man's words | surprised property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | could | man | anything | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | word | man | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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