The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 40
I did not lose the power of speech, or of feeling the misery of my present state.
Who acts: I · What happens: not lose, feel · To what, where: power, misery
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lose | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lose | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 lose | advmod |
| 4 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 power | det |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lose | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 speech | case |
| 8 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 power | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feeling | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 feeling | cc |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 feeling | mark |
| 12 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lose | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 misery | det |
| 14 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feeling | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 state | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 state | nmod:poss |
| 17 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 state | amod |
| 18 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 misery | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose | past · do-support | I | the power of speech | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | feel | gerund | I not said here | the misery of my present state | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misery=Theme |
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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