The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 16
“My miserable sheep’s face displeases her, and without Miranda what is left to me, wretched creature that I am!
Who acts: face · What happens: displease, leave · To what, where: sister, wretched creature, anxiety
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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 | _ | 7 displeases | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 3 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sheep | amod |
| 4 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 sheep | case |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 displeases | nsubj |
| 7 | displeases | displease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 displeases | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 Miranda | case |
| 12 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 left | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux:pass |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 displeases | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 left | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 creature | punct |
| 19 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 creature | amod |
| 20 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 am | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 am | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 creature | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 displeases | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | displease in a quote | present | My miserable sheep's face | sister | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | present · passive | wretched creature | anxiety | without Miranda | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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