The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 56
His lordship did so; and I remained alone, in great perplexity.
Who acts: lordship, I · What happens: do, remain · To what, where: great perplexity
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lordship, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 lordship | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lordship | lordship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 remained | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 remained | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 remained | nsubj |
| 8 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 remained | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 perplexity | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 perplexity | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 perplexity | amod |
| 13 | perplexity | perplexity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remained | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | friend's lordship | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | remain | past | I | great perplexity | alone property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in perplexity=Location |
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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