The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 204

She was too ugly and ragged for him ever to have noticed her, but Titty on her side had admired him, though she thought he might well have been a little fatter.

Who acts: Zizi, simplicity · What happens: be, notice, admire, think · To what, where: simplicity, Titty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zizi, simplicity), 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	4 ugly	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ugly	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 ugly	advmod
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ragged	cc
6	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ugly	conj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 noticed	mark
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 noticed	nsubj:pass
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 noticed	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	12 noticed	mark
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 noticed	aux
12	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ugly	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 noticed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 admired	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 admired	cc
16	Titty	Titty	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 admired	nsubj:pass
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 side	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 side	nmod:poss
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Titty	nmod
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 admired	aux
21	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ugly	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 admired	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 thought	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thought	nsubj
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 admired	advcl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fatter	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 fatter	aux
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 fatter	advmod
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 fatter	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 fatter	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 little	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fatter	obl:unmarked
34	fatter	fat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 thought	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ugly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Zizi			ugly property	tree rules
2	be		Zizi not said here				tree rules
3	notice	to-infinitive · perfect · passive		simplicity	ever		tree rules
4	admire	past · perfect · passive		Titty on Zizi's side			tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	Zizi				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	might · perfect	simplicity			a little obl:unmarked; fat, well property	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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