The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 75
She complained to Jegu of his laziness, and he only stared at her, not understanding what she was talking about.
Who acts: Barbaik, Jegu · What happens: complain, stare, not understand, talk about · To what, where: Jegu
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbaik, Jegu), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 complained | nsubj |
| 2 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Jegu | case |
| 4 | Jegu | Jegu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 complained | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 laziness | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 laziness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | laziness | laziness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Jegu | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stared | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stared | nsubj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 stared | advmod |
| 12 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 complained | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stared | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 understanding | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 understanding | advmod |
| 17 | understanding | understand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stared | advcl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 talking | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 talking | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 talking | aux |
| 21 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 understanding | conj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 talking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 complained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other | past | Barbaik | Jegu of Jegu's laziness | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to jegu=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | Jegu | at Barbaik | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not understand | gerund | Jegu not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | talk about | past · progressive | Barbaik | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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