The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 79
The girl's heart sank at this order; for how was it possible for her to do her mistress's bidding?
Who acts: heart, it, woman, mistress · What happens: sink, be, do, bid · To what, where: order, bidding
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, it, woman, mistress), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 girl | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sank | nsubj |
| 5 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 order | det |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sank | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 possible | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 possible | mark |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 possible | advmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 possible | cop |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 possible | nsubj |
| 14 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sank | conj |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 possible | csubj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 mistress | case |
| 22 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | the girl's heart | this order | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | it | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | woman | woman's mistress's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | bid | woman's mistress | nom bidding «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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