The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 88
She was so weak and miserable, that directly her godmother appeared she burst into tears, and could not speak for some time.
Who acts: Dotterine, that · What happens: be, appear, burst, not speak · To what, where: tears · 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 (Dotterine, that), 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 | 4 weak | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 weak | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 weak | advmod |
| 4 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 miserable | cc |
| 6 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weak | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 9 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 12 appeared | advmod |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 godmother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 weak | parataxis |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 burst | nsubj |
| 14 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 appeared | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 tears | case |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 burst | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 speak | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 speak | cc |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 speak | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 speak | advmod |
| 21 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 weak | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 speak | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Dotterine | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Dotterine not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | appear | past | that | directly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burst | past | Dotterine | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not speak speech: other | could | Dotterine not said here | time | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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 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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