The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 11

Felicia, who was very gentle, said nothing, but stood up crying quietly; while Bruno, for that was her brother’s name, sat comfortably by the fire.

Who acts: Felicia, that · What happens: be, say, stand up, cry, sit · To what, where: nothing, Bruno · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia, that), 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	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gentle	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 gentle	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gentle	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 gentle	advmod
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Felicia	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Felicia	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 stood	cc
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 stood	compound:prt
14	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 stood	advcl
15	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	14 crying	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 Bruno	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 Bruno	mark
18	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 name	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	26 name	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 brother	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 brother	cop
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brother	nmod:poss
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 name	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 brother	case
26	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stood	conj
29	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	28 sat	advmod
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 fire	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fire	det
32	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sat	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Felicia		gentle property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Felicia	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	stand up	past	Felicia not said here	Bruno	for Felicia's brother's name	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	gerund	Felicia not said here		quietly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	that		's Felicia's brother	tree rules
6	sit	past	Felicia not said here		by the fire; comfortably property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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