The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 74
The feelings of the poor merchant in this sore dilemma can hardly be imagined.
What happens: imagine · To what, where: feelings
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 feelings | det |
| 2 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 imagined | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 merchant | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 merchant | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 merchant | amod |
| 6 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feelings | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dilemma | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 dilemma | det |
| 9 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dilemma | amod |
| 10 | dilemma | dilemma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 merchant | nmod |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 imagined | aux |
| 12 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 14 imagined | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 imagined | aux:pass |
| 14 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can · passive | the feelings of the poor merchant in this sore dilemma | hardly property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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