The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 18
And the very idea of such a thing made her weep, while even Dame Ilse said:
Who acts: idea, dame · What happens: make, weep, say · To what, where: dame · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, dame), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 idea | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 idea | advmod |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 thing | case |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 thing | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 idea | nmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 said | mark |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 Dame | advmod |
| 15 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 16 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Dame | flat |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 weep | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the idea of such thing | dame | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weep | infinitive | dame not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dame | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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