The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 34

It was such a good match for the girl that it never occurred to anyone that she would refuse the young man, but so it was.

Who acts: family, girl · What happens: be, not occur, refuse · To what, where: good match, young man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, girl), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 match	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 match	cop
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 match	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 match	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 match	amod
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 girl	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 match	nmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 occurred	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 occurred	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 occurred	advmod
13	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 match	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 anyone	case
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 occurred	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 refuse	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 refuse	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 refuse	aux
19	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 anyone	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 refuse	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 was	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 was	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 was	nsubj
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 occurred	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 match	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	family	such good match	for the girl	tree rules
2	not occur	past	family	such good match not said here	to anyone	tree rules
3	refuse	would	girl	the young man		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
4	be	past	family			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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