The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 71
I was very sad, and my husband, who was out when it happened, never knew what had become of me.
Who acts: I, it, husband · What happens: be, not know, become · 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 (I, it, husband), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sad | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 sad | advmod |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knew | cc |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 husband | nmod:poss |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 was | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | cop |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 was | compound:prt |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 happened | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 husband | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 knew | advmod |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sad | conj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 become | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 knew | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 become | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | it | happen property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | past | my husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | of me | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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