The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 62

Hannah did not know what to think--the story was so strange; and it seemed impossible to think her pretty boy and this hideous dwarf were the same.

Who acts: Hannah, story, it, boy · What happens: not know, think, be, seem · To what, where: Hannah · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hannah, story, it, boy), 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	Hannah	Hannah	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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 think	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 strange	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 strange	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 strange	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 strange	advmod
13	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 think	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 seemed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seemed	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
18	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seemed	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 think	mark
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 impossible	csubj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 think	obj
22	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	23 boy	advmod
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 same	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dwarf	cc
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 dwarf	det
26	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dwarf	amod
27	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 boy	conj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 same	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 same	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 think	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Hannah			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	is	past	the story		strange property	tree rules
4	seem	past	it		impossible property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive		Hannah		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
6	is	past	boy and this hideous dwarf		same 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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