The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 30
So saying, the Fairy disappeared, leaving Prince Darling very much astonished.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: say, disappear, leave · To what, where: Prince Darling · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 disappeared | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 disappeared | nsubj |
| 6 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaving | punct |
| 8 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 disappeared | advcl |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Darling | compound |
| 10 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 leaving | obj |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 astonished | advmod |
| 13 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leaving | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Fairy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | disappear | past | the Fairy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the Fairy not said here | Prince Darling | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent darling=Theme |
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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