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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

ccdetamodnsubj:passauxcasedetadvmodoblmarkdetnsubjnsubjauxacl:relclcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodcopdetadvclcasenmodpunctccconjdetiobjmarknsubjcopadvmoddetccompnsubjacl:relclpunctrootButCCONJtheDEToldADJwomanNOUNhadAUXsuspectedVERBfromADPtheDETveryADVfirstADJthatSCONJtheDETboyNOUNwhoPRONhadAUXcomeVERBtoADPtheDETrescueNOUNofADPherPRONsonNOUNwasAUXaDETgirlNOUNinADPdisguiseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoldVERBtheDETgeniusNOUNthatSCONJshePRONwasAUXexactlyADVtheDETwifeNOUNhePRONneededVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_6 suspectedcc
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 womandet
3oldoldADJDegree=Pos4 womanamod
4womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing6 suspectednsubj:pass
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 suspectedaux
6suspectedsuspectVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7fromfromADP_10 firstcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 firstdet
9veryveryADV_10 firstadvmod
10firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord6 suspectedobl
11thatthatSCONJ_25 girlmark
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 boydet
13boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing25 girlnsubj
14whowhoPRONPronType=Rel16 comensubj
15hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 comeaux
16comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part13 boyacl:relcl
17totoADP_19 rescuecase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 rescuedet
19rescuerescueNOUNNumber=Sing16 comeobl
20ofofADP_22 soncase
21herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 sonnmod:poss
22sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing19 rescuenmod
23wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 girlcop
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 girldet
25girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing10 firstadvcl
26ininADP_27 disguisecase
27disguisedisguiseNOUNNumber=Sing25 girlnmod
28,,PUNCT_30 toldpunct
29andandCCONJ_30 toldcc
30toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 suspectedconj
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 geniusdet
32geniusgeniusNOUNNumber=Sing30 toldiobj
33thatthatSCONJ_38 wifemark
34sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 wifensubj
35wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 wifecop
36exactlyexactlyADV_38 wifeadvmod
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 wifedet
38wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing30 toldccomp
39hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 needednsubj
40neededneedVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 wifeacl:relcl
41..PUNCT_6 suspectedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1suspectpast · perfect · passivethe old womanthe firstvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2comepast · perfectthe boythe rescue of woman's sonvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location
3is apastthe boya girldisguisetree rules
4tell speech: assertpastthe geniusvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent genius=Recipient
5is apastgirlthe wifeexactly propertytree rules
6needpastboythe wife not said herevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme
7rescuewoman's sonnom 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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