The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 117
Well, you may all think the fright, and the joy, and the grief the poor man was in when the woman finished her story.
Who acts: you, woman · What happens: think, be · To what, where: fright
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 think | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 think | advmod |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fright | det |
| 8 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 think | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 joy | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 joy | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 joy | det |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 think | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grief | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grief | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grief | det |
| 16 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 joy | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grief | appos |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 finished | cop |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 finished | mark |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 finished | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 woman | det |
| 24 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 finished | nsubj |
| 25 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 man | acl:relcl |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 story | nmod:poss |
| 27 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 finished | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | may | you | the fright | the joy and the grief obl; all property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fright=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the woman | finish property | tree rules |
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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