The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 55
By that time she had grown so beautiful that her people could scarcely recognise her.
Who acts: world, people · What happens: grow, recognise · To what, where: world
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, people), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grown | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grown | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grown | aux |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grown | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 recognise | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 people | nmod:poss |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 recognise | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 recognise | aux |
| 13 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 14 recognise | advmod |
| 14 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 beautiful | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 recognise | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | world | time | beautiful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | recognise | could | world's people | world | scarcely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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