The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 40
As soon as she saw it, she exclaimed: ‘This is the most beautiful little dog I have ever seen.
Who acts: mother, This, I · What happens: see, exclaim, be · To what, where: dog, beautiful little dog
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, This, I), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 dog | punct |
| 12 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 dog | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dog | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dog | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dog | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dog | amod |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 seen | advmod |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 dog | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | mother | dog | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | This | the beautiful little dog | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | present · perfect | I | the beautiful little dog not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=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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