The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 17
You may imagine how hard-hearted her lovers thought her; and the Queen, who wished to see her married, did not know how to persuade her to think of it seriously.
Who acts: You, lovers, Queen, Bellissima · What happens: imagine, heart, think, wish, see, not know · To what, where: Bellissima, married
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, lovers, Queen, Bellissima), 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 | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hearted | advcl |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 7 | hearted | heart | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | ccomp |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lovers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hearted | ccomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 know | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 know | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wished | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 wished | nsubj |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Queen | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wished | xcomp |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 married | nmod:poss |
| 22 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 see | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Queen | punct |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 know | advmod |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 imagine | parataxis |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 persuade | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 persuade | mark |
| 29 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 know | advcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 persuade | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 think | mark |
| 32 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 persuade | xcomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 think | obl |
| 35 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 32 think | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may | You | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | heart | past | You not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Bellissima's lovers | Bellissima | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | the Queen | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | Bellissima's married | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer married=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not know | past · do-support | the Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | persuade | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | Bellissima | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 8 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Bellissima not said here | of entertainment; seriously property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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