The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 58
She felt as if she were listening to a language which no one but herself could understand.
Who acts: crack · What happens: feel, listen, understand · To what, where: one
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 (crack), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 listening | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 listening | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 listening | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 listening | aux |
| 7 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 felt | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 language | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 language | det |
| 10 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 listening | obl |
| 11 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 13 one | det |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 language | appos |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 understand | cc |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 understand | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 understand | aux |
| 17 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | crack | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | listen | past · progressive | crack | to a language | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to language=Theme | ||||
| 3 | understand | could | crack | which one not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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