The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 68
Anastasia saw the bearer of the letter and he pleased her very much.
Who acts: Anastasia · What happens: see · To what, where: bearer
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 (Anastasia), 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 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bearer | det |
| 4 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 letter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 letter | det |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bearer | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pleased | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pleased | nsubj |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pleased | nsubj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 pleased | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Anastasia | the bearer of the letter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bearer=Stimulus |
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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