The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 73
Elsa did not know which way to look, for everything that met her eyes was more beautiful than she could have dreamed possible.
Who acts: Elsa, everything · What happens: not know, look, meet, be, dream · To what, where: way, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elsa, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:88): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 beautiful | mark |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 beautiful | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 met | nsubj |
| 13 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 everything | acl:relcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 met | obj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 beautiful | cop |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 know | advcl |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 23 dreamed | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dreamed | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 dreamed | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 dreamed | aux |
| 23 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 beautiful | advcl |
| 24 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dreamed | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Elsa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | which way | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | Elsa's eyes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | everything | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dream | could · perfect | Elsa | possible property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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