The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 29

‘As you may suppose, this was not easy, as my ugliness was such that no one would look at me a second time.

Who acts: you, this, ugliness, one · What happens: suppose, not be, be, look

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this, ugliness, one), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 suppose	punct
2	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 suppose	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 suppose	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 suppose	aux
5	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 easy	punct
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 easy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 easy	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 easy	advmod
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 suppose	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 such	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 such	mark
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ugliness	nmod:poss
14	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 such	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 such	cop
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	10 easy	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 look	mark
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 look	aux
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 such	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 look	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 look	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	may	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	this		easy property	tree rules
3	is	past	my ugliness		such property	tree rules
4	look	would	no one	time	at me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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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