The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 36
Souci felt this to be true, and was sorry for the old woman.
Who acts: Souci · What happens: feel, be · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Souci), 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 | Souci | Souci | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 felt | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 true | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 true | cop |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sorry | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sorry | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorry | cop |
| 10 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorry | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Souci | this | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Souci not said here | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Souci not said here | for the old woman; sorry property | 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 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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