The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 81
Quite terrified, she drew back, crying out: “Oh! my dear pinks, how can you stay here in such bad company?”
Who acts: Felicia, dear pinks · What happens: draw back, cry out, stay · To what, where: such bad company · 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, dear pinks), 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 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 terrified | advmod |
| 2 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 drew | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drew | nsubj |
| 5 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 terrified | conj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 drew | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crying | punct |
| 8 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 drew | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 crying | compound:prt |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 stay | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 stay | punct |
| 12 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 21 stay | discourse |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Oh | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pinks | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pinks | amod |
| 16 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stay | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stay | punct |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 stay | advmod |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 stay | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 stay | nsubj |
| 21 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 terrified | conj |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 stay | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 company | case |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 company | amod |
| 25 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 company | amod |
| 26 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stay | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 terrified | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | past | Felicia | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | gerund | Felicia not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | can | my dear pinks | such bad company; here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in company=Location |
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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