The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 59
You little guess the anxiety he has suffered while you were in the power of that miserable Queen.’
Who acts: You, Percinet · What happens: guess, suffer, be · To what, where: anxiety, power
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 (You, Percinet), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 guess | nsubj |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guess | nsubj |
| 3 | guess | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 anxiety | det |
| 5 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guess | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 suffered | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 suffered | aux |
| 8 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 anxiety | acl:relcl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 power | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 power | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 power | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 power | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 power | det |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suffered | advcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Queen | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 Queen | nsubj |
| 17 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Queen | amod |
| 18 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 power | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 guess | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 guess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | present | You | the anxiety | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anxiety=Theme | ||||
| 2 | suffer | present · perfect | Percinet | the anxiety not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anxiety=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | you | the power | of miserable Queen | tree rules |
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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