The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 65
‘It was absurd,’ she sobbed out, ‘quite unjust.
Who acts: noise, wife · What happens: be, sob out
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, wife), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 absurd | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 absurd | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 absurd | cop |
| 4 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sobbed | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 8 sobbed | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sobbed | nsubj |
| 8 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 absurd | parataxis |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sobbed | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unjust | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 unjust | punct |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 unjust | advmod |
| 13 | unjust | unjust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sobbed | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 absurd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | noise | absurd property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sob out | past | wife | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 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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