The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 110
She fainted away, for this is the first expedient almost all women find in such cases.
Who acts: wife, this, women · What happens: faint away, be, find · To what, where: first expedient, such cases
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, this, women), 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 fainted | nsubj |
| 2 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 fainted | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 expedient | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 expedient | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 expedient | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 expedient | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 expedient | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 expedient | amod |
| 10 | expedient | expedient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fainted | obl |
| 11 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 all | advmod |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 women | det |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 find | nsubj |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 expedient | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cases | case |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cases | amod |
| 17 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 find | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fainted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint away | past | wife | away property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present | this | for the first expedient | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | present | all women | the first expedient not said here | such cases | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedient=Topic |
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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