The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 22
The girl’s mother had always believed that her daughter would be empress, and not the ‘Milkwhite Maiden,’ the child of a mere shepherd.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: believe, be · To what, where: mother, empress
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 girl | case |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 believed | aux |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 believed | advmod |
| 7 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 empress | mark |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 empress | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 empress | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 empress | cop |
| 13 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 believed | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Milkwhite | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Milkwhite | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 Milkwhite | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Milkwhite | det |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Milkwhite | punct |
| 19 | Milkwhite | Milkwhite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 believed | obl |
| 20 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Milkwhite | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 child | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 child | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Milkwhite | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 shepherd | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 shepherd | det |
| 27 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 shepherd | amod |
| 28 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 child | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past · perfect · passive | the girl's mother | the Milkwhite obl; always property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | would | girl's daughter | empress | 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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