The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 38

She had but one more chance, and on breaking the last egg she found to her great delight that it contained a more marvellous thing than ever.

Who acts: girl, chance · What happens: have, break, find, contain, delight · To what, where: one more chance, last egg, marvellous thing

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, chance), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 chance	cc
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 chance	nummod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 chance	amod
6	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
9	on	on	SCONJ	_	10 breaking	mark
10	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 found	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 egg	det
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 egg	amod
13	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 breaking	obj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 delight	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 delight	nmod:poss
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 delight	amod
19	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 contained	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 contained	nsubj
22	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 found	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 thing	det
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 marvellous	advmod
25	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thing	amod
26	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 contained	obj
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 ever	case
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 contained	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	girl	one more chance		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
2	break	gerund	girl not said here	the last egg		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient
3	find	past	girl		to girl's great delight	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	contain	past	chance	a marvellous thing		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
5	delight		girl			nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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