The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 96
And at this thought her courage failed, and she began to cry bitterly.
Who acts: courage, sister · What happens: think, fail, begin, cry · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (courage, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 thought | obl |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 courage | nmod:poss |
| 6 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 failed | nsubj |
| 7 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 failed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cry | mark |
| 13 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 13 cry | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | this | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fail | past | sister's courage | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | sister | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | sister not said here | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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