The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 90

She felt inclined to laugh—the idea was so absurd; but she was kind-hearted and polite, so she looked as grave as she could, and answered:

Who acts: woman, idea · What happens: feel, laugh, be, look, answer

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, idea), 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	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 laugh	mark
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 inclined	xcomp
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 absurd	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 idea	det
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 absurd	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 absurd	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 absurd	advmod
11	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 laugh	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 hearted	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 hearted	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hearted	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hearted	cop
16	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hearted	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 kind	punct
18	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 polite	cc
20	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hearted	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 looked	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	nsubj
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 grave	advmod
26	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 looked	xcomp
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 could	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 could	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 grave	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 answered	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 answered	cc
32	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	parataxis
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	past	woman	inclined property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	laugh	to-infinitive	woman not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the idea	absurd property	tree rules
4	is	past	woman	hearted property	tree rules
5	be		woman not said here		tree rules
6	look	past	woman	grave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	answer speech: assert	past			vn reciprocate-112-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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