The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 59

‘You?’ cried Tephany, stupefied at discovering that the beggar knew all about her affairs, but the old woman did not hear her.

Who acts: You, beggar, old woman · What happens: cry, stupefy, discover, know, not hear · To what, where: Tephany, affairs, beggar

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, beggar, old woman), 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	_	5 cried	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 You	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 You	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stupefied	punct
8	stupefied	stupefy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cried	conj
9	at	at	SCONJ	_	10 discovering	mark
10	discovering	discover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stupefied	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 knew	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beggar	det
13	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 discovering	ccomp
15	all	all	ADV	_	18 affairs	advmod
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 affairs	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 affairs	nmod:poss
18	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 knew	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hear	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 hear	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hear	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hear	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 hear	advmod
26	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hear	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	You	Tephany	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tephany=Topic
2	stupefy	participle	You not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	discover	gerund	You not said here		vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	know	past	the beggar	beggar's affairs	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer affair=Stimulus
5	not hear	past · do-support	the old woman	beggar	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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