The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 127

Just then Bruno, who was going back to his work, came out of the cottage, and thought he must be dreaming when he saw Felicia; but she called him very kindly, and begged the Queen to take pity on him.

Who acts: Bruno, Felicia · What happens: go back, come out, think, dream, see, call · To what, where: cottage, Felicia, Bruno, Queen, pity · 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 (Bruno, Felicia), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 then	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 came	advmod
3	Bruno	Bruno	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 going	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 Bruno	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 going	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 work	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 work	nmod:poss
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Bruno	punct
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 cottage	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 cottage	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cottage	det
17	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dreaming	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 dreaming	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 dreaming	aux
24	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 thought	ccomp
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 saw	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dreaming	advcl
28	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 called	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 called	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	nsubj
32	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	obj
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 kindly	advmod
35	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	32 called	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 begged	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 begged	cc
38	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Queen	det
40	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 begged	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 take	mark
42	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 begged	ccomp
43	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 take	obj
44	on	on	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 take	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past · progressive	Bruno					vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	come out	past	Bruno	the cottage		then		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cottage=Result
3	think speech: other	past	Bruno not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	dream	must · progressive	Bruno					vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	see	past	Bruno	Felicia				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer felicia=Stimulus
6	call	past	Felicia		Bruno		kindly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	beg speech: request	past	Bruno not said here		the Queen			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic
8	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		pity			on Bruno	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on he=Destination
9	work		Bruno					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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