The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 119

“It is yours already, lovely Princess!” he cried, taking her hand in his; “but for the horrible enchantment which kept me silent I should have told you long ago how dearly I love you.”

Who acts: heart, child, horrible enchantment · What happens: be, cry, take, keep, tell, love · To what, where: yours, hand, child, you · 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 (heart, child, horrible enchantment), 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	_	4 yours	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yours	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 yours	cop
4	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cried	parataxis
5	already	already	ADV	_	4 yours	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Princess	punct
7	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Princess	amod
8	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yours	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 Princess	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 yours	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 taking	punct
14	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 cried	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 his	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 taking	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 told	cc
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 enchantment	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 enchantment	det
24	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 enchantment	amod
25	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 told	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 kept	nsubj
27	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 enchantment	acl:relcl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 kept	obj
29	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 kept	xcomp
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 told	nsubj:pass
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 told	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 told	aux
33	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cried	parataxis
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 told	iobj
35	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 ago	advmod
36	ago	ago	ADV	_	33 told	advmod
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 dearly	advmod
38	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	40 love	advmod
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 love	nsubj
40	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 told	ccomp
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 love	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	heart	yours			tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	child				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	gerund	child not said here	Princess's hand			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hand=Theme his=Destination
4	keep in a quote	past	the horrible enchantment	child		silent property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	should · perfect · passive		child	you	for the horrible enchantment; ago property	tree rules
6	love in a quote	present	child	you		dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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