The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 4
The consequence was that this little person, who was as pretty as possible, and was one day to wear a crown, grew up so proud and so much in love with her own beauty that she despised everyone else in the world.
Who acts: consequence, little person, daughter · What happens: be, wear, grow up, despise · To what, where: little person, one day, crown, own beauty
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 (consequence, little person, daughter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 consequence | det |
| 2 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 person | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 person | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 person | mark |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 person | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pretty | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 pretty | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pretty | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 pretty | advmod |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 person | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 possible | mark |
| 14 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pretty | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 day | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 day | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 day | cop |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 day | nummod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 person | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wear | mark |
| 21 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 day | acl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 crown | det |
| 23 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wear | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grew | punct |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 person | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 grew | compound:prt |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 proud | advmod |
| 28 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grew | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 much | cc |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 much | advmod |
| 31 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 proud | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 love | case |
| 33 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 much | nmod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 beauty | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 beauty | amod |
| 37 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 proud | obl |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 despised | obj |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 despised | nsubj |
| 40 | despised | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 41 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 40 despised | obj |
| 42 | else | else | ADV | _ | 41 everyone | advmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 world | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 world | det |
| 45 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 everyone | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 person | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the consequence | this little person and one day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this little person and one day | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the consequence not said here | one day | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wear | to-infinitive | the consequence not said here | a crown | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | ||||
| 5 | grow up | past | the consequence not said here | proud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | despise | past | daughter | daughter's own beauty | 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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