The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 116

‘Oh dear, oh dear! she must be wandering in her mind,’ murmured the lad to himself.

Who acts: Hannah · What happens: wonder, murmur, mind · To what, where: mind, lad, head

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (Hannah), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 dear	discourse
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dear	punct
5	oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 dear	discourse
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dear	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wandering	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wandering	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 wandering	aux
11	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dear	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 mind	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mind	nmod:poss
14	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wandering	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 murmured	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 murmured	punct
17	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dear	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lad	det
19	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 murmured	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 himself	case
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 murmured	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	must · progressive	Hannah			Hannah's mind	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	murmur speech: other	past		the lad	head		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lad=Topic to himself=Recipient
3	mind		Hannah				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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