The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 83

Simon then pretended to be seized with remorse at the sight of this dreadful catastrophe, and cried out in a loud voice, ‘Unhappy wretch that I am!

Who acts: Simon, I · What happens: pretend, seize, cry out, be, sight · To what, where: sight, loud voice, that, dreadful catastrophe

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:2071): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pretended	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 pretended	advmod
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 seized	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 seized	aux:pass
6	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pretended	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 remorse	case
8	remorse	remorse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seized	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 sight	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sight	det
11	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seized	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 catastrophe	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 catastrophe	det
14	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 catastrophe	amod
15	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sight	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cried	cc
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pretended	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 cried	compound:prt
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 voice	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 voice	det
22	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 voice	amod
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cried	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wretch	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 wretch	punct
26	Unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wretch	amod
27	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cried	ccomp
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 wretch	acl:relcl
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 that	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 that	cop
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 wretch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	Simon			then		tree rules
2	seize	to-infinitive · passive	Simon not said here		the sight of this dreadful catastrophe		with remorse	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»
3	cry out speech: express	past	Simon not said here		a loud voice			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location
4	is a	present	I	that				tree rules
5	sight			this dreadful catastrophe				nom sight «cognition 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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