The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 46

‘It is true,’ thought he, ‘that she was very poorly dressed, but then she was so ashamed that it proves that she was not accustomed to be so.

Who acts: four, visit · What happens: be, think, dress, prove, not accustom · To what, where: King, visit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (four, visit), 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 true	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thought	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dressed	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 he	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 dressed	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 dressed	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dressed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dressed	aux:pass
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 poorly	advmod
15	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	16 dressed	advmod
16	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 thought	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ashamed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 ashamed	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 ashamed	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ashamed	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ashamed	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 ashamed	advmod
23	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dressed	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 proves	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 proves	nsubj
26	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 ashamed	advcl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 accustomed	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 accustomed	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 accustomed	aux:pass
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 accustomed	advmod
31	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 proves	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	34 so	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 so	cop
34	so	so	ADV	_	31 accustomed	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	four			true property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	dress	past · passive		King		poorly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	past	visit		then	ashamed property	tree rules
5	prove	present	four				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not accustom	past · passive		visit			tree rules
7	is	to-infinitive				so property	tree rules

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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