The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 107

From her earliest infancy she had shown the most astonishing intelligence, and the courtiers knew her smart sayings by heart, and repeated them on all occasions.

Who acts: daughter, courtiers · What happens: show, astonish, know, repeat, say · To what, where: astonishing intelligence, earliest infancy, smart sayings, sayings, occasions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, courtiers), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 infancy	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 infancy	nmod:poss
3	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 infancy	amod
4	infancy	infancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shown	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shown	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shown	aux
7	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 intelligence	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 astonishing	advmod
10	astonishing	astonish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 intelligence	amod
11	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shown	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knew	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 courtiers	det
15	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shown	parataxis
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sayings	nmod:poss
18	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sayings	amod
19	sayings	saying	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 knew	obj
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 heart	case
21	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knew	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 repeated	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 repeated	cc
24	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 knew	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 repeated	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 occasions	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 occasions	det
28	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 repeated	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	past · perfect	daughter	the astonishing intelligence	daughter's earliest infancy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent intelligence=Recipient
2	astonish	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	know	past	the courtiers	daughter's smart sayings		by heart	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer saying=Stimulus
4	repeat	past	the courtiers not said here	sayings = saying	all occasions		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
5	say		daughter				nom saying «communication transitive»: 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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