The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 11
Then she said, ‘Your heart is heavy with two sorrows, one old and one new.
Who acts: queen, heart · What happens: say, ‘, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, heart), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ‘ | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ‘ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 6 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heavy | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heavy | cop |
| 9 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ‘ | ccomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 sorrows | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 sorrows | nummod |
| 12 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heavy | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 old | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 old | nummod |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ‘ | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 new | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 new | nummod |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 old | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | queen | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ‘ | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | Your heart | with two sorrows; heavy property | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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