--- title: The girl could scarcely believe her good fortune, and, in gratitude… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The girl could scarcely believe her good fortune, and, in gratitude for all the kindness shown her, was so useful and pleasant to her husband’s parents that they soon loved her. Who acts: girl, gratitude, riches. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/34/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/) / 34 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 34 The girl could scarcely believe her good fortune, and, in gratitude for all the kindness shown her, was so useful and pleasant to her husband’s parents that they soon loved her. **Who acts:** girl, gratitude, riches · **What happens:** believe, show, be, love · **To what, where:** good fortune, kindness, girl This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, gratitude, riches), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:21:34 # text = The girl could scarcely believe her good fortune, and, in gratitude for all the kindness shown her, was so useful and pleasant to her husband’s parents that they soon loved her. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 scarcely scarcely ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 gratitude gratitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’s 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 34 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | could | the girl | girl's good fortune | | | | scarcely *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fortune=Stimulus | | 2 | **show** | participle | | all kindness *not said here* | girl | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | past | gratitude for all kindness | | | | | to girl's husband's parents; useful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | gratitude for all kindness *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **love** | past | riches *= rich* | girl | | | | soon *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/35/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/)