The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 15
But she did not believe any the more that her guest was a man, and so she told her son.
Who acts: woman, guest · What happens: not believe, be, tell · To what, where: any, man, son · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, guest), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 believe | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 more | det |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 any | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 man | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 guest | nmod:poss |
| 11 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 any | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 told | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | nsubj |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | iobj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | past · do-support | woman | any | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | woman's guest | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | woman | woman's son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |
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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