The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 30
The fairy was so touched by the sight of her misery that when she kissed her hand she whispered:
Who acts: sight, fairy · What happens: touch, kiss, whisper, sight · To what, where: fairy, misery, hand
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, fairy), 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 | 2 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 touched | advmod |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 misery | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 misery | nmod:poss |
| 11 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 kissed | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 kissed | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kissed | nsubj |
| 15 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 misery | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kissed | obj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 whispered | nsubj |
| 19 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hand | acl:relcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · passive | the sight of fairy's misery | the fairy | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | fairy | fairy's misery | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | fairy | fairy's hand not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sight | fairy's misery | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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