The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 90
‘I could not have believed that there was such a beautiful Princess in the world!’
Who acts: I · What happens: not believe, be · To what, where: beautiful Princess, world
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 (I), 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 | _ | 6 believed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 believed | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 believed | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 believed | aux |
| 6 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 Princess | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 was | mark |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Princess | cop |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 Princess | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Princess | amod |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Princess | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Princess | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | could · perfect | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | such beautiful Princess | the world | 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 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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