The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 99

But WE can guess that the doll had been dressed in them, which was to go back to the village in her stead.

Who acts: WE · What happens: guess, dress, be · To what, where: doll

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 (WE), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 guess	cc
2	WE	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 guess	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 guess	aux
4	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 dressed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doll	det
7	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dressed	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dressed	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 dressed	aux:pass
10	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 guess	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dressed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 go	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 go	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 guess	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 village	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 village	det
21	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 stead	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 stead	nmod:poss
24	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 village	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 guess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	guess	can	WE			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	dress	past · perfect · passive		the doll	in clothes	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	past			to the village in Elsa's stead; go property	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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