The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 77
It was so afraid of losing any of its ornaments, and it was quite bewildered by all the radiance.
Who acts: care, radiance · What happens: be, lose, bewilder · To what, where: any, care
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care, radiance), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 losing | mark |
| 6 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 afraid | advcl |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 losing | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ornaments | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ornaments | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 any | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bewildered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bewildered | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bewildered | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bewildered | aux:pass |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 bewildered | advmod |
| 16 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 afraid | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 radiance | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 radiance | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 radiance | det |
| 20 | radiance | radiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bewildered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | care | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | care not said here | any | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | bewilder | past · passive | all radiance | care | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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