The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 32
I had a mirror’--here shyness and embarrassment choked her words--but regaining her self-control, she added, ‘You know that fairies insist on being obeyed without questioning.
Who acts: I, shyness, bird, You, fairies · What happens: have, choke, regain, add, know, insist · To what, where: mirror, bird, self control · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, shyness, bird, You), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mirror | det |
| 4 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 choked | punct |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 choked | advmod |
| 8 | shyness | shyness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 choked | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 embarrassment | cc |
| 10 | embarrassment | embarrassment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shyness | conj |
| 11 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 choked | obj |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 choked | obj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 added | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 added | cc |
| 16 | regaining | regain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 added | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 control | nmod:poss |
| 18 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 control | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 self | punct |
| 20 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 regaining | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 regaining | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 added | nsubj |
| 23 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 know | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 27 know | punct |
| 26 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 know | nsubj |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 added | ccomp |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 insist | mark |
| 29 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 insist | nsubj |
| 30 | insist | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 know | ccomp |
| 31 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 33 obeyed | mark |
| 32 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 33 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 insist | ccomp |
| 34 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 35 questioning | mark |
| 35 | questioning | question | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 obeyed | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | a mirror | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Patient | ||||
| 2 | choke | past | shyness and embarrassment | bird | here | tree rules | |||
| 3 | regain | gerund | bird not said here | bird's self control | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | bird | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | insist speech: other | present | fairies | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | obey | gerund · passive | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 8 | question speech: other | gerund | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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