The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 103

‘It is impossible that she can be his daughter!’ he said to himself, ‘for she has a kind heart.

Who acts: girl, door · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: daughter, door, kind heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, door), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 impossible	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	cop
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 daughter	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 daughter	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 daughter	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughter	nmod:poss
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 impossible	advcl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 has	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 has	nsubj
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 heart	det
23	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 heart	amod
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present				impossible property	tree rules
2	is a	can	girl	door's daughter			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	door		door		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	have	present	girl	a kind heart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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