The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 9
But the old woman had suspected from the very first that the boy who had come to the rescue of her son was a girl in disguise, and told the genius that she was exactly the wife he needed.
Who acts: boy, girl · What happens: suspect, come, be, tell, need, rescue · To what, where: old woman, first, rescue, girl, disguise, genius · 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 (boy, girl), 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 | _ | 6 suspected | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suspected | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 suspected | aux |
| 6 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 first | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 first | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 first | advmod |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 suspected | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 girl | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 girl | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 boy | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 rescue | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rescue | det |
| 19 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 son | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rescue | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 girl | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 girl | det |
| 25 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 first | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 disguise | case |
| 27 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 girl | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 told | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 told | cc |
| 30 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 suspected | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 genius | det |
| 32 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 told | iobj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 wife | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 wife | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 wife | cop |
| 36 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 38 wife | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wife | det |
| 38 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 told | ccomp |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 needed | nsubj |
| 40 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 wife | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 suspected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | past · perfect · passive | the old woman | the first | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | the boy | the rescue of woman's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the boy | a girl | disguise | tree rules | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the genius | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent genius=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | girl | the wife | exactly property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | need | past | boy | the wife not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme | ||||
| 7 | rescue | woman's son | nom rescue «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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