The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 30
The queen, watching this transformation, could hardly believe her eyes, and would have taken it all for a dream, had it not been for the basket which she held in her hand.
Who acts: queen, basket · What happens: watch, believe, take, have, not be, hold · To what, where: transformation, eyes, hand
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, basket), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 watching | punct |
| 4 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 queen | acl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 transformation | det |
| 6 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watching | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 queen | punct |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 believe | aux |
| 9 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 10 believe | advmod |
| 10 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 believe | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taken | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 taken | cc |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 taken | aux |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 believe | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taken | obj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 it | det |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 dream | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dream | det |
| 22 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | obj |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 basket | advmod |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 basket | cop |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 basket | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 basket | det |
| 30 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 held | nsubj |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 held | nsubj |
| 33 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 basket | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 hand | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 hand | nmod:poss |
| 36 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 held | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | the queen not said here | this transformation | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transformation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | believe | could | the queen | queen's eyes | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | take | would · perfect | transformation | for a dream | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for dream=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | have | past | transformation | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not is | participle | for the basket | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | hold | past | the basket | queen's hand | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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