The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 68

She must surely have lost her feathers because she sees so many distinguished men round her!’

Who acts: girl · What happens: lose, see · To what, where: feathers, many distinguished men

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux
3	surely	surely	ADV	_	5 lost	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 lost	aux
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feathers	nmod:poss
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lost	obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 sees	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sees	nsubj
10	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	advcl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
13	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sees	obj
15	round	round	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 men	nmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	must · perfect	girl	girl's feathers				surely property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality
2	see	present	girl	many distinguished men				round bird	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=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 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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