The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 8

Felicia believed that her brother loved her, but when she sat down upon one of the stools he said angrily:

Who acts: Felicia, brother · What happens: believe, love, sit down, say · To what, where: Felicia, stools · 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, brother), 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	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 loved	mark
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loved	nsubj
6	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 believed	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loved	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 sat	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 believed	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sat	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 stools	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stools	det
18	stools	stool	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stools	acl:relcl
21	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	20 said	advmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	past	Felicia			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	love	past	Felicia's brother	Felicia		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	sit down	past	Felicia		upon one of the stools; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon one=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	brother	the stools not said here	angrily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stool=Topic

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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