The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 53
Rosette thought she had never seen anything so pretty.
Who acts: Rosette · What happens: think, not see · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosette), 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 | Rosette | rosette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 seen | advmod |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 seen | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 pretty | advmod |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 6 seen | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Rosette | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect | Rosette | anything | pretty property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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