The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 85
The girl was very unhappy as she listened to this, and felt sorry that she had not tried to make the best of things.
Who acts: girl · What happens: be, listen, feel, not try, make · To what, where: best
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 (girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unhappy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unhappy | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 unhappy | advmod |
| 5 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 listened | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 listened | nsubj |
| 8 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unhappy | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 listened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 felt | cc |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unhappy | conj |
| 14 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 tried | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tried | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tried | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 tried | advmod |
| 19 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 felt | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tried | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 best | det |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 things | case |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 best | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unhappy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the girl | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | girl | to this | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | the girl not said here | sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not try | past · perfect | girl | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | the best of things | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product |
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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