The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 38
'How careless of me,' gasped she, beginning to sob. '
What happens: gasp, begin, sob · To what, where: princess
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 careless | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 careless | advmod |
| 3 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 careless | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gasped | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 gasped | punct |
| 8 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 careless | conj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gasped | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beginning | punct |
| 11 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 gasped | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sob | mark |
| 13 | sob | sob | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 beginning | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 careless | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 careless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gasp | past | princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 2 | begin | gerund | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | sob | to-infinitive | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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 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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