The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 65
Miranda kissed her little dog, crying so bitterly, that at last she could bear it no longer, and turned away into the forest.
Who acts: Miranda, that · What happens: kiss, cry, bear, turn away · To what, where: little dog, gratitude, forest
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miranda, that), 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 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dog | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dog | amod |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 crying | punct |
| 7 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 kissed | advcl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 bitterly | advmod |
| 9 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 7 crying | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bear | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 bear | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 that | nmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bear | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bear | aux |
| 16 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 kissed | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bear | obj |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 bear | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 turned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 turned | cc |
| 22 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 turned | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Miranda | Miranda's little dog | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | Miranda not said here | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bear | could | that | gratitude | long property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | turn away | past | Miranda not said here | the forest | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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