The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 114
“Madam,” replied Felicia, blushing, “you overwhelm me with your kindness.
Who acts: Madam, Felicia, you · What happens: reply, blush, overwhelm · To what, where: Felicia, Madam · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, Felicia, you), 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 | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 blushing | punct |
| 8 | blushing | blush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Felicia | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 overwhelm | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 overwhelm | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 overwhelm | nsubj |
| 12 | overwhelm | overwhelm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 overwhelm | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 kindness | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overwhelm | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Madam | Felicia | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blush | gerund | Felicia not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | overwhelm in a quote | present | you | Madam | with your kindness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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