The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 45
The woman looked as if she thought this was needless, seeing it was quite, quite certain they would never come back.
Who acts: woman, this, it, clothes · What happens: look, think, be, see, not come back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, this, it, clothes), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 thought | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 thought | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 needless | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 needless | cop |
| 10 | needless | needless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seeing | punct |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 thought | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 certain | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 certain | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 certain | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 certain | punct |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 certain | advmod |
| 18 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seeing | ccomp |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 come | advmod |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 certain | ccomp |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the woman | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | woman | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | this | needless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | woman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | it | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not come back | would | clothes | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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