The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 94
The sight of the huts made her feel more lonely and helpless than before.
Who acts: sight, sister · What happens: make, feel, sight · To what, where: sister, huts
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, sister), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 huts | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 huts | det |
| 5 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sight | nmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 lonely | advmod |
| 10 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feel | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 helpless | cc |
| 12 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lonely | conj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 before | case |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 lonely | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the sight of the huts | sister | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | sister not said here | lonely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sight | the huts | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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