The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 51
‘This is like being buried alive,’ she said with a shudder.
Who acts: Graciosa · What happens: bury, say · To what, where: This · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 buried | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 buried | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 buried | aux:pass |
| 4 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 6 buried | mark |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 buried | aux:pass |
| 6 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 buried | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 buried | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 buried | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 shudder | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shudder | det |
| 14 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | present · passive | This | alive property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Graciosa | with a shudder | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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