The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 42

“She disappeared as she finished speaking, and if I had not been too unhappy to care about anything I should have been glad that she was gone.

Who acts: lion, Miranda · What happens: disappear, finish, speak, not be, care, be · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lion, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 disappeared	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 disappeared	nsubj
3	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 finished	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 finished	nsubj
6	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 disappeared	advcl
7	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 finished	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 glad	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 glad	cc
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 unhappy	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 unhappy	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 unhappy	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 unhappy	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 unhappy	cop
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 unhappy	advmod
16	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 glad	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 care	mark
18	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 unhappy	xcomp
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 anything	case
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 care	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 glad	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 glad	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 glad	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 glad	cop
25	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 disappeared	advcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 gone	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gone	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gone	cop
29	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 glad	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	disappear in a quote	past	lion		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	finish in a quote	past	lion		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other in a quote	gerund	lion not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	Miranda	unhappy property	tree rules
5	care in a quote	to-infinitive	Miranda not said here	about anything	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about anything=Stimulus
6	is in a quote	should · perfect	Miranda	glad property	tree rules
7	is in a quote	past	lion	gone property	tree rules

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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