The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 24
She threw herself out of the chariot and ran to him, crying bitterly, for she realized that her broken promise had cost him his life, and for a long, long time she was so unhappy that they thought she would have died too.
Who acts: sight, broken promise, Sheep · What happens: throw, run, cry, realize, cost, be · To what, where: sight, chariot, face, life · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sight, broken promise, Sheep), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 threw | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 chariot | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 chariot | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chariot | det |
| 7 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ran | advcl |
| 14 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 13 crying | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 realized | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 realized | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 realized | nsubj |
| 18 | realized | realize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 cost | mark |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 promise | nmod:poss |
| 21 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 promise | amod |
| 22 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cost | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 cost | aux |
| 24 | cost | cost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 realized | ccomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cost | iobj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cost | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 unhappy | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 unhappy | cc |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 time | det |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 time | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 long | punct |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 time | amod |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 unhappy | obl |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 unhappy | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 unhappy | cop |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 unhappy | advmod |
| 39 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 threw | conj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 thought | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 thought | nsubj |
| 42 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 unhappy | advcl |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 died | nsubj |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 died | aux |
| 45 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 died | aux |
| 46 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 thought | ccomp |
| 47 | too | too | ADV | _ | 46 died | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | sight | sight | the chariot | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent herself=Theme out chariot=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | run | past | sight not said here | face | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | sight not said here | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | realize | past | sight | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | cost | past · perfect | sight's broken promise | promise's life | face | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary life=Value | |||
| 6 | is | past | sight | time | unhappy property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | Sheep | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | die | would · perfect | sight | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 9 | promise | sight | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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