The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 15

Bellissima was already fifteen years old, and every one of the Princes wished to marry her, but not one dared to say so.

Who acts: Bellissima, one · What happens: be, wish, marry, dare, say · To what, where: Bellissima · 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 (Bellissima, one), 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	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
3	already	already	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
4	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wished	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wished	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wished	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Princes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princes	det
13	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 marry	mark
16	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wished	xcomp
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 marry	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dared	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 dared	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 one	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 dared	nsubj
22	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 wished	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 say	mark
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 dared	xcomp
25	so	so	ADV	_	24 say	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Bellissima		year	old property	tree rules
2	wish	past	every one of the Princes				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	every one of the Princes not said here	Bellissima			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	dare	participle	one				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	one not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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