The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 68

‘You can’t imagine what a funny feeling hanging gives you,’ murmured the Shifty Lad, who looked rather purple in the face and spoke in an odd voice.

Who acts: You, funny feeling, Shifty Lad · What happens: not imagine, hang, give, murmur, look, speak · To what, where: you, Shifty Lad, odd voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, funny feeling, Shifty Lad), 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 imagine	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 imagine	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 imagine	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 imagine	advmod
5	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 murmured	ccomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 gives	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feeling	det
8	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feeling	amod
9	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	nsubj
10	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 feeling	acl
11	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 imagine	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 gives	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 imagine	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 imagine	punct
15	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Lad	det
17	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Lad	amod
18	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 murmured	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looked	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 looked	nsubj
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Lad	acl:relcl
22	rather	rather	ADV	_	23 purple	advmod
23	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 looked	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 face	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 face	det
26	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 purple	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spoke	cc
28	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 looked	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 voice	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 voice	det
31	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 voice	amod
32	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spoke	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 murmured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not imagine	can	You					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hang	gerund	a funny feeling not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	present	a funny feeling		you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Theme
4	murmur speech: other	past		the Shifty Lad				tree rules
5	look	past	the Shifty Lad				purple property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	speak speech: other	past	the Shifty Lad not said here			a odd voice		vn talk-37.5 «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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