The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 53
‘When I grew up and the world came into being, everyone thought I was the most beautiful girl that ever was seen, though many hated me for it.
Who acts: I, world, everyone, many · What happens: grow up, come, think, be, see, hate · To what, where: beautiful girl, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, world, everyone, many), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 grew | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 grew | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 10 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 11 being | mark |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 girl | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 girl | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 girl | amod |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 seen | nsubj |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 seen | advmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 girl | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hated | punct |
| 26 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 hated | mark |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hated | nsubj |
| 28 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | advcl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 hated | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hated | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | I | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | everyone | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | I | the beautiful girl | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | past · passive | the beautiful girl | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | hate | past | many | me | for world | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus for it=Attribute |
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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