The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 61
‘Alas!’ answered she, ‘while I was bathing someone stole my clothes, and my friends have abandoned me.’
Who acts: I, someone · What happens: answer, bath, steal, abandon · To what, where: Maiden, clothes, friends
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, someone), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 abandoned | advcl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bathing | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 bathing | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 bathing | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bathing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bathing | aux |
| 12 | bathing | bath | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 answered | advcl |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 stole | nsubj |
| 14 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bathing | ccomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 stole | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 abandoned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 abandoned | cc |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 abandoned | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 abandoned | aux |
| 22 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 abandoned | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 abandoned | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 abandoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Maiden | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bath | past · progressive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | steal | past | someone | my clothes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clothes=Theme | ||||
| 4 | abandon | present · perfect · passive | my friends | 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 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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