The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 19

Then she went into the great court in front of the palace, and taking her lute in her hand, she began to play so beautifully that one felt as though one could never hear enough.

Who acts: idea, one · What happens: go, take, begin, play, feel, not hear · To what, where: great court, lute, hand, enough

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 court	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 court	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 court	amod
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 court	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 front	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taking	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 taking	cc
15	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lute	nmod:poss
17	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taking	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hand	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hand	nmod:poss
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 play	mark
25	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 beautifully	advmod
27	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	25 play	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 felt	mark
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 felt	nsubj
30	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 play	advcl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 hear	mark
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	36 hear	mark
33	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hear	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 hear	aux
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 hear	advmod
36	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 felt	ccomp
37	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hear	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	idea		the great court in front of the palace	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into court=Initial_Location
2	take	gerund	idea not said here	idea's lute	idea's hand			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lute=Value in hand=Location
3	begin	past	idea					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	play	to-infinitive	idea not said here				beautifully property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	feel	past	one					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not hear	could	one	enough				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer enough=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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