The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 80
‘Oh, I feel so ill, I’m sure I’m going to die,’ wept she.
Who acts: I · What happens: feel, be, go, die, weep · To what, where: wife
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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 feel | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 wept | ccomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 ill | advmod |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feel | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’m | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’m | nsubj |
| 10 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | conj |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ’m | xcomp |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ’m | nsubj |
| 13 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sure | ccomp |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 ’m | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 die | mark |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 going | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 19 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wept | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | ill property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | present | I | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | I not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | die | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | weep | past | wife | 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 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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