The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 4

When the girl was fifteen years old, her godmother fell ill, and, calling the child to her bedside, she said: ‘My dear daughter, I feel that my end is near.

Who acts: girl, godmother, I, end · What happens: be, fall, call, say, feel · To what, where: child, bedside · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, godmother, I, end), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 old	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 old	cop
5	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 old	obl:unmarked
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 godmother	nmod:poss
10	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 old	conj
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fell	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 calling	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 calling	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 calling	punct
16	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 fell	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 calling	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 bedside	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bedside	nmod:poss
21	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 calling	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 daughter	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 daughter	punct
27	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 daughter	nmod:poss
28	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 daughter	amod
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 feel	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 feel	nsubj
32	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 near	mark
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 end	nmod:poss
35	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 near	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 near	cop
37	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 feel	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the girl			year	old property	tree rules
2	fall	past	girl's godmother				ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	gerund	girl's godmother not said here	the child	girl's bedside			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Topic to bedside=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	girl					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	feel	present	I					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	present	my end				near property	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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