The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 70
You may imagine how miserable she was, and how she cried as she went on, not knowing which path to follow, and with the thorny bushes scratching her dreadfully and tearing her pretty frock to pieces.
Who acts: You, Miranda · What happens: imagine, be, cry, go on, not know, follow · To what, where: path, Miranda, pretty frock · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, Miranda), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 miserable | advmod |
| 5 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 imagine | ccomp |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 miserable | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 miserable | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 cried | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knowing | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 knowing | advmod |
| 19 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cried | advcl |
| 20 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 21 path | det |
| 21 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knowing | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 follow | mark |
| 23 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 path | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 scratching | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 scratching | cc |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 bushes | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bushes | det |
| 28 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bushes | amod |
| 29 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 scratching | obl |
| 30 | scratching | scratch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cried | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 scratching | obj |
| 32 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 30 scratching | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 tearing | cc |
| 34 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 scratching | conj |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 frock | nmod:poss |
| 36 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 frock | amod |
| 37 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tearing | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 pieces | case |
| 39 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tearing | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may | You | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Miranda | miserable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Miranda | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go on | past | Miranda | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not know | gerund | Miranda not said here | which path | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | follow | to-infinitive | Miranda not said here | which path not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | scratch | gerund | Miranda not said here | Miranda | with the thorny bushes; dreadfully property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient with bush=Instrument | |||
| 8 | tear | gerund | Miranda not said here | Miranda's pretty frock | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent frock=Patient to piece=Result |
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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