The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 20

But the waiting-maid had observed it with delight, as she knew it gave her power over the bride, for in losing the drops of blood the Princess had become weak and powerless.

Who acts: maid, loss, drops · What happens: observe, know, give, lose, become · To what, where: waiting maid, power, maid · 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 (maid, loss, drops), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 observed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
3	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maid	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 waiting	punct
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 observed	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 observed	aux
7	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 observed	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 delight	case
10	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 observed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knew	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 knew	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 observed	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 knew	ccomp
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 bride	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bride	det
21	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 losing	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 losing	mark
24	in	in	SCONJ	_	25 losing	mark
25	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 gave	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 drops	det
27	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 become	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 blood	case
29	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drops	nmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Princess	det
31	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 become	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 become	aux
33	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 losing	parataxis
34	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 become	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 powerless	cc
36	powerless	powerless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 weak	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	observe	past · perfect · passive		the waiting maid		with delight	tree rules
2	know	past	maid				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	give	past	loss	power	maid	over the bride	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient power=Theme
4	lose	gerund					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	become	past · perfect	the drops of blood			weak property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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