The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 311

Ludovine had no need to think over it long, but she was torn in pieces between the shame of a humiliating confession, and the desire to be unhorned.

Who acts: Ludovine · What happens: have, think, tear, humiliate, be, shame · To what, where: need, Ludovine, pieces, humiliating confession

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ludovine), 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	Ludovine	Ludovine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 need	det
4	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 think	mark
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	acl
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	obl
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 think	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 torn	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 torn	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 torn	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 torn	aux:pass
14	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 pieces	case
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 torn	obl
17	between	between	ADP	_	19 shame	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shame	det
19	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pieces	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 confession	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 confession	det
22	humiliating	humiliate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 confession	amod
23	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shame	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 desire	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 desire	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 desire	det
27	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	30 unhorned	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 unhorned	cop
30	unhorned	unhorned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 desire	acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Ludovine	no need			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Ludovine not said here	no need not said here	need	long property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tear	past · passive		Ludovine	pieces between the shame of a humiliating confession		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	humiliate	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	to-infinitive	Ludovine not said here			unhorned property	tree rules
6	shame			a humiliating confession			nom shame «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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