The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 65
When the mistress read it she could hardly believe her eyes and called for her daughter.
Who acts: mistress · What happens: read, believe, call · To what, where: letter, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 read | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mistress | det |
| 3 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | nsubj |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 read | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 believe | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 believe | aux |
| 8 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 9 believe | advmod |
| 9 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 read | ccomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 believe | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | the mistress | letter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | could | mistress | mistress's eyes | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | call | past | for mistress's daughter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for daughter=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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