The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 99

At first the work she had to do seemed very difficult, but either she was wonderfully quick in learning, or else the basket may have secretly helped her.

Who acts: work, basket · What happens: have, do, seem, be, help · To what, where: work, learning

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 (work, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 seemed	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 work	det
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seemed	nsubj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 work	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 difficult	advmod
11	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seemed	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 quick	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 quick	cc
14	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 quick	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 quick	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 quick	cop
17	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	18 quick	advmod
18	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seemed	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 learning	case
20	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 quick	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 have	cc
23	else	else	ADV	_	27 have	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 basket	det
25	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	nsubj
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seemed	parataxis
28	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	29 helped	advmod
29	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 have	ccomp
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 helped	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	work	the work not said here				tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the work not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	the work				difficult property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	work			learning	either, quick, wonderfully property	tree rules
5	have	may	the basket				else property	tree rules
6	help	past	the basket not said here		work		secretly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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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