The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 6

He felt very much ashamed of himself, and went with lagging feet to tell his father!

Who acts: man · What happens: feel, go, lag, tell · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 ashamed	advmod
5	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 ashamed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	parataxis
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 feet	case
12	lagging	lag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 feet	amod
13	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	iobj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	man		ashamed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	go	past			with lagging feet	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with foot=Beneficiary
3	lag	gerund				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		man's father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient

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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