The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 66

‘Oh, wonderful! can this really be my poor little self?’ she exclaimed, looking down in amazement at her tiny worn-out crutch as it lay upon the floor.

Who acts: Princess, crutch · What happens: be, exclaim, look down, lie · To what, where: poor little self, floor

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, crutch), 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	_	4 wonderful	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 wonderful	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 exclaimed	parataxis
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 wonderful	punct
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 this	aux
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wonderful	obl
8	really	really	ADV	_	13 self	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 self	cop
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 self	nmod:poss
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 self	amod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 self	amod
13	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wonderful	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wonderful	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wonderful	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 exclaimed	nsubj
17	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looking	punct
19	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 exclaimed	advcl
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 looking	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 amazement	case
22	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looking	obl
23	at	at	ADP	_	29 crutch	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 crutch	nmod:poss
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 crutch	amod
26	worn	worn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 out	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 out	punct
28	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crutch	compound
29	crutch	crutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looking	obl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 lay	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lay	nsubj
32	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looking	advcl
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 floor	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 floor	det
35	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		my poor little self			tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	Princess				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	look down	gerund	Princess not said here			at Princess's tiny out crutch; in amazement; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in amazement=Theme
4	lie	past	crutch		the floor		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon floor=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 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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