The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 42
This was enough to cause the Princess to suspect that her lover had returned.
Who acts: This, lover · What happens: be, cause, suspect, return · To what, where: Princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, lover), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 enough | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 enough | cop |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cause | mark |
| 5 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 enough | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cause | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 suspect | mark |
| 9 | suspect | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Princess | acl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 returned | mark |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lover | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 returned | aux |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 suspect | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cause | to-infinitive | This not said here | the Princess | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition princess=Patient | ||||
| 3 | suspect | to-infinitive | This not said here | the Princess not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | return | past · perfect | Rosalie's lover | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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