The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 113
Then she was quite happy, for she knew the mirror always spoke the truth.
Who acts: land · What happens: be, know, speak · To what, where: mirror, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 happy | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 knew | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mirror | det |
| 11 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knew | obj |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 spoke | advmod |
| 13 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knew | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 truth | det |
| 15 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spoke | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | land | then | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past | land | the mirror | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mirror=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | land not said here | the truth | always 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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