The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 24
‘Oh, madam,’ replied he, ‘you can never guess the days and the hours I have passed lost in admiration of you.’
Who acts: madam, you, I · What happens: reply, not guess, pass, lose, admire · To what, where: days, admiration, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam, you, I), 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 madam | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 guess | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 14 guess | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 guess | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 guess | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 guess | advmod |
| 14 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 days | det |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 guess | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hours | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hours | det |
| 19 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 days | conj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 passed | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 passed | aux |
| 22 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 days | acl:relcl |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 passed | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 admiration | case |
| 25 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lost | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 admiration | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 guess | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 guess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | madam | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not guess | can | you | day | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pass | present · perfect | I | the days and the hours not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | I not said here | admiration of you | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in admiration=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | admire | you | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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