More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 103
For a while she could do nothing but walk round and round her treasure, admiring the yellow gold and wondering at her good luck, and saying to herself about every two minutes, "Well, I _do_ be feeling rich and grand!"
Who acts: Mercy · What happens: do, walk, admire, wonder, say, feel · To what, where: nothing, yellow gold, good luck, Mercy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mercy), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 walk | cc |
| 9 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 walk | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 treasure | cc |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 treasure | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 14 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 round | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 admiring | punct |
| 16 | admiring | admire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 walk | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gold | det |
| 18 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gold | amod |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 admiring | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wondering | cc |
| 21 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 admiring | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 luck | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 luck | nmod:poss |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 luck | amod |
| 25 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wondering | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saying | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 saying | cc |
| 28 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 do | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 herself | case |
| 30 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 saying | obl |
| 31 | about | about | ADV | _ | 34 minutes | advmod |
| 32 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 minutes | det |
| 33 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 minutes | nummod |
| 34 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 saying | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 do | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 do | punct |
| 37 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 41 do | discourse |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Well | punct |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 do | nsubj |
| 40 | _ | _ | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 do | aux |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 saying | ccomp |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 44 feeling | punct |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 feeling | aux |
| 44 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 do | advcl |
| 45 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 feeling | xcomp |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 grand | cc |
| 47 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 rich | conj |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 41 do | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | Mercy | nothing | while | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | walk | present | Mercy not said here | round property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | admire | gerund | Mercy not said here | the yellow gold | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Mercy not said here | Mercy's good luck | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | say speech: express | gerund | Mercy not said here | Mercy | minute | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 6 | do in a quote | Mercy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | feel in a quote | infinitive · progressive | Mercy not said here | rich property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | treasure | Mercy | nom treasure «possession 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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