The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 66
Then I rose up, feeling as melancholy as ever I did in my life.
Who acts: I · What happens: rise up, feel, do · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rose | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 feeling | punct |
| 6 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rose | advcl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 melancholy | case |
| 8 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feeling | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 did | mark |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 did | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feeling | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | I | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | gerund | I not said here | as melancholy | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as melancholy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | I | my life | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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