The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 15
She felt, somehow, as if it was her husband’s fault, but still she kept command over herself, and didn’t once reproach him.
Who acts: greyhound, child · What happens: feel, be, keep, reproach · To what, where: command, husband
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greyhound, child), 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 somehow | punct |
| 4 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 2 felt | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fault | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 fault | case |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 fault | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fault | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fault | cop |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fault | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 husband | case |
| 13 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kept | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 kept | cc |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 kept | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 kept | nsubj |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 19 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 herself | case |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 kept | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 did | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 did | cc |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 reproach | aux |
| 25 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 did | advmod |
| 26 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 reproach | advmod |
| 27 | reproach | reproach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 reproach | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | greyhound | somehow property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | child | as greyhound's husband's fault | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | greyhound | command | still | over greyhound | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent command=Theme over herself=Location | ||
| 4 | reproach | past · do-support | greyhound not said here | husband | once property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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