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The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 117

Although the horse had informed the princess the dragon was really her own father, the girl had hardly believed him, and stared in amazement at the transformation.

Who acts: princess · What happens: inform, be, believe, stare · To what, where: horse, own father, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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

markdetnsubj:passauxdetnsubjdetnsubjcopadvmodnmod:possamodccomppunctdetnsubj:passauxadvmodadvclobjpunctccconjcaseoblcasedetoblpunctrootAlthoughSCONJtheDEThorseNOUNhadAUXinformedVERBtheDETprincessNOUNtheDETdragonNOUNwasAUXreallyADVherPRONownADJfatherNOUN,PUNCTtheDETgirlNOUNhadAUXhardlyADVbelievedVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJstaredVERBinADPamazementNOUNatADPtheDETtransformationNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AlthoughalthoughSCONJ_5 informedmark
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 horsedet
3horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing5 informednsubj:pass
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 informedaux
5informedinformVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 princessdet
7princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing14 fathernsubj
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 dragondet
9dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing14 fathernsubj
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 fathercop
11reallyreallyADV_14 fatheradvmod
12herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 fathernmod:poss
13ownownADJDegree=Pos14 fatheramod
14fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing5 informedccomp
15,,PUNCT_20 believedpunct
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 girldet
17girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing20 believednsubj:pass
18hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 believedaux
19hardlyhardlyADV_20 believedadvmod
20believedbelieveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 fatheradvcl
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 believedobj
22,,PUNCT_24 staredpunct
23andandCCONJ_24 staredcc
24staredstareVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 informedconj
25ininADP_26 amazementcase
26amazementamazementNOUNNumber=Sing24 staredobl
27atatADP_29 transformationcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 transformationdet
29transformationtransformationNOUNNumber=Sing24 staredobl
30..PUNCT_5 informedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1inform speech: otherpast · perfect · passivethe horsevn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2is apastthe princessdragon's own fathertree rules
3believepast · perfect · passivethe girlhardly propertyvn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme he=Eventuality
4starepastat the transformation; in amazementvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in amazement=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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