The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 18
“‘Who complains of my coldness in this dismal place?’
What happens: complain · To what, where: dismal place
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 complains | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 complains | punct |
| 3 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 complains | nsubj |
| 4 | complains | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 coldness | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coldness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | coldness | coldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 complains | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 place | det |
| 10 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 complains | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 complains | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 complains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other in a quote | present | this dismal place | of my coldness | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: 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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