The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 4
The girl, who felt much confused, only managed to stammer out as an excuse that her father had sent her.
Who acts: girl, father · What happens: feel, manage, stammer out, send · To what, where: girl
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, father), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 confused | advmod |
| 7 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 managed | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 managed | advmod |
| 10 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 felt | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stammer | mark |
| 12 | stammer | stammer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 managed | xcomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 stammer | compound:prt |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 excuse | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 excuse | det |
| 16 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stammer | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 sent | mark |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sent | aux |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 stammer | advcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the girl | confused property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | manage | participle | the girl not said here | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stammer out speech: other | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | as a excuse | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | send | past · perfect | girl's father | girl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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