The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 121

Overcome with gratitude, the keeper stooped to caress the strange creature which had done him such a great service; but suddenly a voice said in his ear:

Who acts: you, keeper, strange creature, voice · What happens: overcome, stoop, caress, do, say · To what, where: gratitude, strange creature, keeper, ear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, keeper, strange creature, voice), 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	Overcome	overcome	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 gratitude	case
3	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Overcome	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stooped	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 keeper	det
6	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stooped	nsubj
7	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gratitude	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 caress	mark
9	caress	caress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stooped	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 creature	det
11	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creature	amod
12	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caress	obj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 done	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 done	aux
15	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 creature	acl:relcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 done	obj
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 service	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 service	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 service	amod
20	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 done	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	26 said	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 voice	det
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Overcome	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 ear	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ear	nmod:poss
29	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Overcome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overcome	imperative	you not said here			with gratitude	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	stoop	past	the keeper	gratitude not said here			tree rules
3	caress	to-infinitive	the keeper not said here	the strange creature			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Experiencer
4	do	past · perfect	the strange creature	keeper			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	a voice		keeper's ear	suddenly property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in ear=Manner

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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