The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 84

In a few years more, Dotterine was a grown-up young lady, and those who saw her thought that the world did not contain so lovely a girl.

Who acts: Dotterine, those, world · What happens: grow up, be, see, think, not contain · To what, where: grown young lady, Dotterine, lovely girl · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dotterine, those, world), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 years	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lady	obl
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 years	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 years	punct
7	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 lady	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lady	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lady	det
10	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 lady	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 up	punct
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 grown	compound:prt
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lady	amod
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thought	cc
17	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 thought	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 those	acl:relcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	obj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lady	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 contain	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 contain	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 contain	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 contain	advmod
27	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thought	ccomp
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 lovely	advmod
29	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 girl	amod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 girl	det
31	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 contain	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 lady	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Dotterine	a grown young lady	year	tree rules
3	see	past		Dotterine		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	those			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not contain	past · do-support	the world	a lovely girl		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=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 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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