The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 104

When she saw these she knew that the woman had been something more than she seemed to be, and in her delight she ate up one of the onions, skin and all.

Who acts: woman · What happens: see, know, be, seem, eat up, delight · To what, where: these, something, one, delight

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	advcl
4	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 saw	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 something	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 something	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 something	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 something	cop
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 knew	obj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 seemed	advmod
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 seemed	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 something	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 be	mark
18	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 seemed	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ate	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ate	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 delight	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 delight	nmod:poss
23	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ate	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ate	nsubj
25	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 something	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 ate	compound:prt
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 ate	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 onions	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 onions	det
30	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 skin	punct
32	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 onions	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 all	cc
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 onions	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	woman	these		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	know	past	woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past · perfect	the woman	something		tree rules
4	seem	past	woman			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	be	to-infinitive	woman not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	eat up	past	woman	one of the onions and skin	woman's delight	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
7	delight		woman			nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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 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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