The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 55
Who can tell the despair which seized the poor maiden when she heard this news!
Who acts: despair, Wind · What happens: tell, seize, hear · To what, where: despair, news · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (despair, Wind), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 despair | det |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 seized | nsubj |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 despair | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 poor | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maiden | amod |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seized | xcomp |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 heard | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | conj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 news | det |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | the despair | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent despair=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | the despair | maiden property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Wind | this news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |
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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