The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 78
When the dwarf had recovered from the first shock he screamed in his screeching voice: “Couldn’t you have treated me more carefully?
Who acts: man · What happens: recover, scream, screech, not treat · To what, where: dwarf, first shock, screeching voice, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 recovered | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dwarf | det |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recovered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recovered | aux |
| 5 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 treated | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 shock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shock | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 shock | amod |
| 9 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recovered | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 screamed | nsubj |
| 11 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shock | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 14 | screeching | screech | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 screamed | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 recovered | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 treated | punct |
| 18 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 treated | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 treated | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 treated | aux |
| 22 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 treated | obj |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 carefully | advmod |
| 25 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 22 treated | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past · perfect · passive | the dwarf | the first shock | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from shock=Source | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | man | the first shock not said here | man's screeching voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Topic | |||
| 3 | screech | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not treat in a quote | could · perfect · passive | you | carefully 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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