The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 57
This question so struck her to the heart that she could not reply.
Who acts: question, Maie · What happens: strike, not reply · To what, where: Maie, heart
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question, Maie), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 question | det |
| 2 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 struck | advmod |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 struck | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 reply | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reply | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 reply | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 reply | advmod |
| 13 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 heart | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | this question | Maie | to the heart result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient to heart=Result | |||
| 2 | not reply speech: assert | could | Maie | the heart not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent heart=Topic |
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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