The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 70
She learnt everything a Princess ought to know without the slightest trouble, and yet something always seemed lacking to make her perfectly charming.
Who acts: Sabella, Princess, something · What happens: learn, know, seem, lack, make, charm · To what, where: everything, Sabella
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (Sabella, Princess, something), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 learnt | nsubj |
| 2 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 learnt | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 learnt | parataxis |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 trouble | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trouble | det |
| 11 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 trouble | amod |
| 12 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seemed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seemed | cc |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 seemed | advmod |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 seemed | nsubj |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 seemed | advmod |
| 18 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 learnt | parataxis |
| 19 | lacking | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 seemed | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 lacking | xcomp |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 24 charming | advmod |
| 24 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 make | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Sabella | everything | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | ought | a Princess | without the slightest trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | something | yet | always property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 4 | lack | gerund | something not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | something not said here | Sabella | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | ||||
| 6 | charm | gerund | something not said here | perfectly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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