The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 17

Then the Princess was compelled by her thirst to get down, and bending over the flowing water she cried and said: “Oh! heaven, what am I to do?” and the three drops of blood replied:

Who acts: thirst, Princess · What happens: compel, get down, bend, flow, cry, say · To what, where: Princess, flowing water, heaven, blood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thirst, Princess), 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	5 compelled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 compelled	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 compelled	aux:pass
5	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 thirst	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 thirst	nmod:poss
8	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 compelled	obl:agent
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 compelled	advcl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
14	bending	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 cried	csubj
15	over	over	ADP	_	18 water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
17	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 water	amod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bending	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cried	nsubj
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 compelled	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cried	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 heaven	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 heaven	punct
25	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	27 heaven	discourse
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 Oh	punct
27	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 do	obj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 heaven	appos
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 drops	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 drops	det
38	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 drops	nummod
39	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 heaven	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 blood	case
41	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drops	nmod
42	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 blood	acl
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 compelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compel	past · passive	Princess's thirst	the Princess		then		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	get down	to-infinitive	Princess's thirst not said here				down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	bend	gerund			the flowing water			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location
4	flow	gerund						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cry speech: express	past	Princess					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: ask	past	Princess not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	do in a quote	present	Princess	heaven and the three drops of blood				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
8	reply speech: assert	participle		blood not said here				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	thirst		Princess					nom thirst «state 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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