The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 14
My subjects loved me, my neighbors envied and feared me.
Who acts: subjects, neighbors · What happens: love, envy, fear · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subjects, neighbors), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 2 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 loved | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 envied | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 7 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 envied | nsubj |
| 8 | envied | envy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 feared | cc |
| 10 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 envied | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 feared | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | My subjects | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | envy | past | my neighbors | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | fear | past | my neighbors not said here | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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