The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 9

I had no idea--or, of course, I would not have spoken--but’--and here she stopped and fumbled with her apron, as if she was greatly embarrassed.

Who acts: I, Daughter · What happens: have, not speak, stop, fumble, be · To what, where: idea · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Daughter), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 idea	det
4	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 spoken	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 spoken	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 or	punct
8	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	6 or	advmod
9	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 of	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 or	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 spoken	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 spoken	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 spoken	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 spoken	aux
15	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	parataxis
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 ’	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 ’	cc
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 spoken	punct
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 stopped	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stopped	cc
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 stopped	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stopped	nsubj
23	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fumbled	cc
25	fumbled	fumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stopped	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 apron	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 apron	nmod:poss
28	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fumbled	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 embarrassed	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 embarrassed	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 embarrassed	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 embarrassed	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 embarrassed	cop
34	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	35 embarrassed	advmod
35	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fumbled	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	no idea			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
2	not speak speech: other	would · perfect	I				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	past	Daughter		here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	fumble	past	Daughter not said here			with Daughter's apron	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Daughter			embarrassed, greatly 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 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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