The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 60
Felicia was in despair when she heard this, not knowing how she was to get them back.
Who acts: Felicia · What happens: be, hear, not know · To what, where: despair, this · 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 (Felicia), 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 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 despair | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 despair | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 despair | case |
| 4 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 despair | acl:relcl |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 heard | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knowing | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 knowing | advmod |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 heard | advcl |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 get | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knowing | ccomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Felicia | despair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Felicia | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not know | gerund | Felicia not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Felicia | get 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 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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