The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 33
“I do not know what it is like to lose one’s heart, madam,” she replied; “but I have always heard that without a heart one cannot live, and if it is broken one must die; and in spite of my poverty I should be sorry not to live.”
Who acts: madam, pot, heart one, one · What happens: not know, be, reply, hear, not live, break · To what, where: that, pot, spite, poverty · 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, pot, heart one, one), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 lose | obj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lose | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lose | cop |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 lose | mark |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 lose | mark |
| 11 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | ccomp |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 heart | nummod |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 one | case |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lose | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 madam | punct |
| 16 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heart | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 replied | nsubj |
| 20 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 heard | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 heard | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 heard | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 heard | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 heard | aux |
| 26 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 heard | advmod |
| 27 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 replied | conj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 heard | obj |
| 29 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 35 live | mark |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 one | det |
| 31 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 one | compound |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 live | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 live | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 live | advmod |
| 35 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 heard | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 die | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 die | cc |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 broken | mark |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 broken | aux:pass |
| 41 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 die | advcl |
| 42 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 die | nsubj |
| 43 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 die | aux |
| 44 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 live | conj |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 55 sorry | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 sorry | cc |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 spite | case |
| 48 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 sorry | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 poverty | case |
| 50 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 poverty | nmod:poss |
| 51 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 spite | nmod |
| 52 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 55 sorry | nsubj |
| 53 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 sorry | aux |
| 54 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 55 sorry | cop |
| 55 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 replied | conj |
| 56 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 58 live | advmod |
| 57 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 live | mark |
| 58 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 55 sorry | advcl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
| 60 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | madam | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | pot | lose property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | madam | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | madam | that | always property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | not live in a quote | can | a heart one | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | break a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | pot | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | die in a quote | must | one | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | should | madam | spite of my poverty | sorry property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | not live in a quote | to-infinitive | madam not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | spite in a quote | my poverty | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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