The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 23
Never in their lives had the cousin and her daughters seen such a supper, and they were delighted and astonished at it.
Who acts: lives, daughters, tables · What happens: not have, see, be · To what, where: cousin, supper
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lives, daughters, tables), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lives | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lives | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cousin | det |
| 7 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 daughters | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cousin | conj |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 daughters | acl |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 supper | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 supper | det |
| 14 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 delighted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 delighted | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 delighted | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 delighted | cop |
| 19 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 had | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 astonished | cc |
| 21 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 delighted | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 astonished | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past | tables's lives | the cousin and life's daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | life's daughters not said here | such supper | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer supper=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | tables = table | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | tables = table not said here | cousin | tree rules |
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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