The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 111
You can easily imagine how delighted he was when he heard the news, and how angry it made all the other kings to lose for ever the hope of marrying the Princess; but, after all, Bellissima could not have married twenty kings--indeed, she had found it quite difficult enough to choose one, for her vanity made her believe that there was nobody in the world who was worthy of her.
Who acts: You, King, news, hope, Bellissima, vanity · What happens: imagine, be, hear, make, lose, marry · To what, where: news, other kings, Princess, Bellissima, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, King, news, hope), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | aux |
| 3 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 4 imagine | advmod |
| 4 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 imagine | ccomp |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 delighted | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | cop |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 heard | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 news | det |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 angry | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 angry | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 angry | advmod |
| 17 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 imagine | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 angry | ccomp |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 kings | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kings | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kings | amod |
| 23 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 lose | mark |
| 25 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 hope | case |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 hope | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hope | det |
| 29 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lose | obl |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 marrying | mark |
| 31 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 hope | acl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Princess | det |
| 33 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 marrying | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 married | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 married | cc |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 but | punct |
| 37 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 all | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 Bellissima | det |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 all | punct |
| 40 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 married | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 married | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 married | advmod |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 married | aux |
| 44 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 imagine | parataxis |
| 45 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 kings | nummod |
| 46 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 married | obj |
| 47 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 48 indeed | punct |
| 48 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 44 married | advmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 found | punct |
| 50 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 found | nsubj |
| 51 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 found | aux |
| 52 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 married | conj |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 found | obj |
| 54 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 55 difficult | advmod |
| 55 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 found | xcomp |
| 56 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 55 difficult | advmod |
| 57 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 choose | mark |
| 58 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 55 difficult | advcl |
| 59 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 58 choose | obj |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 made | punct |
| 61 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 64 made | mark |
| 62 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 vanity | nmod:poss |
| 63 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 made | nsubj |
| 64 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 found | conj |
| 65 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 64 made | obj |
| 66 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 64 made | xcomp |
| 67 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 69 was | mark |
| 68 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 69 was | expl |
| 69 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 66 believe | ccomp |
| 70 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 69 was | nsubj |
| 71 | in | in | ADP | _ | 73 world | case |
| 72 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 73 world | det |
| 73 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 nobody | nmod |
| 74 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 76 worthy | nsubj |
| 75 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 76 worthy | cop |
| 76 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 70 nobody | acl:relcl |
| 77 | of | of | ADP | _ | 78 her | case |
| 78 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 76 worthy | obl |
| 79 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can | You | easily property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is | past | King | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | King | the news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | make | past | news | all other kings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material king=Product | ||||
| 5 | lose | to-infinitive | news not said here | for the hope | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | marry | gerund | the hope not said here | the Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 7 | not marry | could · perfect · passive | all Bellissima | indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | find | past · perfect | Bellissima | news | difficult property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 9 | choose | to-infinitive | Bellissima not said here | one | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 10 | make | past | Princess's vanity | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | believe | infinitive | Princess not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 12 | be | past | nobody | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 13 | is | past | of Princess; worthy property | tree rules |
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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