The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 32

‘How could I have been so foolish,’ she whispered to herself, when she went down as usual at sunset.

Who acts: I, Tephany · What happens: be, whisper, go down · To what, where: Tephany

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Tephany), 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	_	8 foolish	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 foolish	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 foolish	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 foolish	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 I	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 foolish	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 foolish	advmod
8	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whispered	punct
10	’	'	CCONJ	_	12 whispered	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 whispered	nsubj
12	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 foolish	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 herself	case
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 whispered	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 went	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 whispered	conj
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 usual	case
21	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 went	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 sunset	case
23	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 foolish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	I			foolish property	tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	past	Tephany	Tephany			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
3	go down	past	Tephany		sunset	as usual; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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