The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 93

She said it, and she mean it; yet, when he had turned his back, she felt more forsaken than before.

Who acts: princess, lot, more · What happens: say, mean, turn, feel, forsake · To what, where: monster, back, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, lot, more), 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mean	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mean	nsubj
7	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mean	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 yet	punct
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 mean	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turned	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 turned	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 turned	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 turned	aux
15	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 mean	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 felt	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 felt	nsubj
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 felt	obj
22	forsaken	forsake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 felt	xcomp
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 before	case
24	before	before	ADV	_	22 forsaken	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	princess	monster			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	mean	infinitive	princess	monster	yet		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	turn	past · perfect	lot	lot's back			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme
4	feel	past	princess	more			tree rules
5	forsake	participle	more not said here			before property	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 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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