The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 78

‘How handsome I am, to be sure,’ said she, gazing into the well, and as she stopped to behold herself better, the jug struck against the stones and broke in pieces, and she was forced to return to her husband without the water, and this angered him.

Who acts: I, daughter, jug, this · What happens: be, say, gaze, stop, behold, strike · To what, where: daughter, stones, pieces, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, daughter, jug, this), 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	_	12 said	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 handsome	advmod
3	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 handsome	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 handsome	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	9 sure	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sure	cop
9	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 handsome	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 sure	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gazing	punct
15	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 well	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 well	det
18	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gazing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stopped	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stopped	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 stopped	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stopped	nsubj
23	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 behold	mark
25	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 stopped	xcomp
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 behold	obj
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 behold	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 struck	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 jug	det
30	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 struck	nsubj
31	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stopped	parataxis
32	against	against	ADP	_	34 stones	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stones	det
34	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 struck	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 broke	cc
36	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 struck	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 pieces	case
38	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 broke	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 forced	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 forced	cc
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 forced	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 forced	aux:pass
43	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
44	to	to	PART	_	45 return	mark
45	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 forced	xcomp
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 husband	case
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 husband	nmod:poss
48	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 return	obl
49	without	without	ADP	_	51 water	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 water	det
51	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 return	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 angered	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 angered	cc
54	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 angered	nsubj
55	angered	anger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 forced	conj
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 angered	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			handsome property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	I not said here			sure property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	daughter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	gaze	gerund	daughter not said here			into the well	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into well=Theme
5	stop	past	daughter				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	behold	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	daughter		good property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus
7	strike	past	the jug		the stones		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against stone=Location
8	break	past	the jug not said here		pieces		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location
9	force	past · passive		daughter			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
10	return	to-infinitive	daughter not said here			to daughter's husband result; without the water	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to husband=Result
11	anger	past	this	husband			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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