The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 127

Upon hearing this the Fairy became convinced that the little Turkey-maiden was none other than the Princess Delicia.

Who acts: little Turkey maiden · What happens: hear, become, be · To what, where: this, none

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Turkey maiden), 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 became	advcl
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 hearing	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fairy	det
5	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	obj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 none	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 maiden	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 maiden	amod
11	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 maiden	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Turkey	punct
13	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 none	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 none	cop
15	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	7 convinced	conj
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 none	amod
17	than	than	ADP	_	20 Delicia	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Delicia	det
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Delicia	compound
20	Delicia	Delicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 other	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund		this		tree rules
2	become	past			convinced property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	the little Turkey maiden	none		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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