The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 76
The Princess was greatly astonished at the hen’s story, and said kindly: “I am truly sorry for you, my poor nurse, and wish it was in my power to restore you to your real form.
Who acts: I, nurse, your · What happens: astonish, say, be, wish, restore, form · To what, where: Princess, story, power, you, real form · 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 (I, nurse, your), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 astonished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | aux:pass |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 astonished | advmod |
| 5 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hen | det |
| 8 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 hen | case |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 astonished | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | conj |
| 14 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 sorry | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sorry | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 sorry | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sorry | cop |
| 19 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 20 sorry | advmod |
| 20 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 sorry | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 nurse | punct |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 25 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 nurse | amod |
| 26 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sorry | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wish | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 wish | cc |
| 29 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 power | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 power | cop |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 power | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 power | nmod:poss |
| 34 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wish | ccomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 restore | mark |
| 36 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 power | acl |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 restore | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 form | case |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 form | nmod:poss |
| 40 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 form | amod |
| 41 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 restore | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astonish | past · passive | the Princess | the hen's story | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | kindly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | I | for you; sorry, truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | nurse | my power | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | restore in a quote | to-infinitive | you | your real form | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to form=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | form in a quote | your | nom form «communication transitive»: 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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