The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 18
She is quite aware of all this herself, so you may imagine how unhappy she is, and how earnestly she begs for your aid.’
Who acts: Sylvia, you · What happens: be, imagine, beg
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvia, you), 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 aware | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 aware | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 aware | advmod |
| 4 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 herself | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 herself | det:predet |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 herself | nsubj |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 aware | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 imagine | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 imagine | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 imagine | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 imagine | aux |
| 13 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 aware | parataxis |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 unhappy | advmod |
| 15 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 imagine | ccomp |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 unhappy | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 unhappy | cop |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 begs | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 begs | cc |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 earnestly | advmod |
| 21 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 23 begs | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 begs | nsubj |
| 23 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 imagine | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 aid | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 aid | nmod:poss |
| 26 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begs | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sylvia | of Sylvia; aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | imagine | may | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Sylvia | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | present | Sylvia | for your aid; earnestly property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for aid=Topic |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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