The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 45
Ferko felt so sorry for the little beast that he spoke to it in the most friendly manner, and washed its small paws with the healing water.
Who acts: Ferko · What happens: feel, speak, wash · To what, where: beast, friendly manner, small paws · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko), 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 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 sorry | advmod |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 beast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beast | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beast | amod |
| 8 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sorry | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 spoke | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 spoke | nsubj |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 spoke | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 manner | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 manner | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 friendly | advmod |
| 17 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 manner | amod |
| 18 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoke | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 washed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 washed | cc |
| 21 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 paws | nmod:poss |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 paws | amod |
| 24 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 washed | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 27 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 water | compound |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 washed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Ferko | sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Ferko | beast | the friendly manner | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | wash | past | Ferko not said here | manner's small paws | with the healing water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent paw=Patient with water=Instrument |
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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