The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 121
The poor girl called to him, and shook him, and between whiles she wept; but she could not wake him.
Who acts: poor girl, girl · What happens: call, shake, weep, not wake · To what, where: poor girl, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor girl, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 girl | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shook | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shook | cc |
| 9 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shook | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wept | cc |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 whiles | case |
| 14 | whiles | while | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wept | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wept | nsubj |
| 16 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shook | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 wake | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 wake | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wake | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 wake | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 wake | advmod |
| 22 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shook | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wake | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the poor girl not said here | prince | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | the poor girl | prince | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | girl | while | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not wake | could | girl | prince | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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