The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 112

I was dumfounded, for once when I had struck her with a rose stalk she had complained and fretted for three days!

Who acts: I, Gul · What happens: dumfound, strike, complain, fret · To what, where: I, Gul, rose stalk

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Gul), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dumfounded	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dumfounded	aux:pass
3	dumfounded	dumfound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 once	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 dumfounded	advmod
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 struck	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 struck	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 struck	aux
10	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 dumfounded	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 struck	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 stalk	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stalk	det
14	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stalk	compound
15	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 struck	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 complained	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 complained	aux
18	complained	complain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 stalk	acl:relcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fretted	cc
20	fretted	fret	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 complained	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 days	case
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 days	nummod
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fretted	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dumfounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dumfound	past · passive		I		once property	tree rules
2	strike	past · perfect	I	Gul		with a rose stalk	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with stalk=Instrument
3	complain speech: other	past · perfect	Gul	a rose stalk not said here			tree rules
4	fret	participle	Gul not said here		day		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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