The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 33
She was feeling more than usually miserable, and had sent away her ladies so that no one might witness her grief.
Who acts: queen, one · What happens: feel, send away, witness · To what, where: ladies, grief
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, one), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feeling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 feeling | aux |
| 3 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 feeling | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 more | fixed |
| 6 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 miserable | advmod |
| 7 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feeling | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | aux |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 feeling | parataxis |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 sent | advmod |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sent | obj |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 witness | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 witness | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 witness | aux |
| 20 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 grief | nmod:poss |
| 22 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 witness | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feeling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · progressive | queen | miserable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send away | past · perfect | queen's ladies | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | ||||
| 3 | witness | might | no one | queen's grief | tree rules |
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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