The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 154

“You need not be afraid that she will change her mind,” said the Fairy, throwing off the hermit’s robe in which she had been disguised and appearing before them.

Who acts: You, fairy · What happens: not be, change, say, throw off, disguise, appear · To what, where: mind, robe, fairy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, fairy), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	nsubj
3	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 afraid	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 change	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 change	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 change	aux
10	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mind	nmod:poss
12	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 change	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Fairy	det
17	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 throwing	punct
19	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
20	off	off	ADP	_	24 robe	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hermit	det
22	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 robe	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 hermit	case
24	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 throwing	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 disguised	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 disguised	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 disguised	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 disguised	aux:pass
30	disguised	disguise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 robe	acl:relcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 appearing	cc
32	appearing	appear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 throwing	conj
33	before	before	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 appearing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	You			afraid property	tree rules
2	change in a quote	future	fairy	fairy's mind			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the Fairy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	throw off	gerund	the Fairy not said here	the hermit's robe			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme
5	disguise	past · perfect · passive		fairy		in the hermit's robe	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in which=Theme
6	appear	gerund	the Fairy not said here		before caresses = caress		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location
7	mind in a quote		fairy				nom mind «cognition 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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