The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 46
Ah, how vexed I was at its loss when I was safe on earth again.
Who acts: I · What happens: vex, be · To what, where: loss, earth
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 vexed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 vexed | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 vexed | advmod |
| 4 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 loss | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 loss | cop |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 loss | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 loss | nmod:poss |
| 9 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vexed | ccomp |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 safe | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 safe | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 safe | cop |
| 13 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 vexed | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 safe | obl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 safe | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | I | water's loss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | I | earth | again | safe 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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