The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 106

Then the boy and the girl went to the palace of the King, her father, where everyone was weeping for her death, and they could hardly believe their eyes when they saw her come back well.

Who acts: boy, everyone, beasts, girl · What happens: go, weep, believe, see, come back, die · To what, where: palace, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, everyone, beasts, girl), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 girl	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	conj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 King	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 palace	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 palace	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weeping	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 weeping	advmod
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	21 weeping	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 weeping	aux
21	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 father	acl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 death	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 death	nmod:poss
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weeping	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 believe	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 believe	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 believe	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 believe	aux
29	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	30 believe	advmod
30	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	parataxis
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 eyes	nmod:poss
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 believe	obj
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 saw	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 saw	nsubj
35	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 believe	advcl
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 come	nsubj
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 saw	xcomp
38	back	back	ADV	_	37 come	advmod
39	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 back	fixed
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the boy and the girl		the palace of the King and girl's father	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
2	weep	past · progressive	everyone				for girl's death	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	believe	could	beasts = beast	beasts's eyes			hardly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
4	see	past	beasts = beast					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come back	infinitive	girl					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	die		girl					nom death «event 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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