The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 15

But she was very much troubled, and said, ‘Dear father, listen to what has befallen me!

Who acts: joy · What happens: be, say, listen, befall · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 troubled	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 troubled	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 troubled	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 troubled	advmod
6	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 troubled	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 father	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 father	punct
12	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 father	amod
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 listen	punct
15	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
16	to	to	SCONJ	_	19 befallen	mark
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 befallen	nsubj:pass
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 befallen	aux
19	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 listen	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 befallen	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 troubled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	joy		troubled property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	listen	infinitive				tree rules
4	befall	present · perfect · passive		me		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 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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