The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 89

‘Yes, oh, yes!’ she answered, ‘and, why--why--I have got my hand back again!’ and from sheer joy she burst into tears.

Who acts: snake, I · What happens: answer, get, burst · To what, where: hand, sheer joy

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, 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	_	10 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 Yes	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
6	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Yes	discourse
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
12	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 why	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 answered	parataxis
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 why	punct
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 got	advmod
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 got	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 got	aux
21	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 why	advcl:relcl
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 got	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	25 again	advmod
25	again	again	ADV	_	21 got	advmod
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 burst	cc
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 joy	case
30	sheer	sheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 joy	compound
31	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 burst	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 burst	nsubj
33	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 why	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	35 tears	case
35	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 burst	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	snake					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present · perfect	I	my hand		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
3	burst	past	snake		sheer joy		into tears	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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