The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 89

She was not a little surprised, but remembering her father’s words, she took courage, determined to wait and see what would happen.

Who acts: pig, father · What happens: not be, remember, take, determine, wait, see · To what, where: words, courage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pig, father), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 surprised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 surprised	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surprised	obl:unmarked
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 remembering	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 remembering	cc
9	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 surprised	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 words	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 father	case
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remembering	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	parataxis
17	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 determined	punct
19	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 took	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 wait	mark
21	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 determined	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wait	conj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 happen	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 happen	aux
26	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 see	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	pig		a little obl:unmarked; surprised property	tree rules
2	remember	gerund	pig not said here	pig's father's words		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	take	past	pig	courage		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
4	determine	participle	pig not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wait	to-infinitive	pig not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	infinitive	pig not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	word		pig's father			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 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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