The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 97

One glance told Iliane who the horrible old woman was, and she whispered hastily to her companion.

Who acts: One glance, woman · What happens: tell, whisper · To what, where: Iliane, companion · 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 (One glance, woman), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 glance	nummod
2	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Iliane	Iliane	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 was	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
7	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Iliane	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 whispered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 whispered	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 whispered	nsubj
14	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
15	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	14 whispered	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 companion	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 companion	nmod:poss
18	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 whispered	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	One glance		Iliane				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent iliane=Recipient
2	whisper speech: assert	past	woman		woman's companion			hastily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to companion=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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