The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 47

At this dreadful sight, the poor Queen, who was trembling like a dove when it sees a hawk, cried out as loud as she could, “Oh! dear Mr. Dwarf, Bellissima shall marry you.”

Who acts: poor Queen, dove, dear Dwarf · What happens: tremble, see, cry out, marry · To what, where: hawk, dreadful sight, you · 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 (poor Queen, dove, dear Dwarf), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 sight	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sight	det
3	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sight	amod
4	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cried	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sight	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Queen	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Queen	amod
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 cried	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trembling	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 trembling	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 trembling	aux
12	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 Queen	acl:relcl
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 dove	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dove	det
15	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trembling	obl
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 sees	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sees	nsubj
18	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 trembling	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hawk	det
20	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sees	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Queen	punct
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 cried	compound:prt
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 loud	advmod
25	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cried	xcomp
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 could	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 could	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 loud	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 marry	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 marry	punct
31	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	35 Dwarf	discourse
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 Oh	punct
33	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Dwarf	amod
34	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Dwarf	nmod:desc
35	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 marry	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Bellissima	punct
37	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Dwarf	flat
38	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 marry	aux
39	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cried	parataxis
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 marry	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 marry	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tremble	past · progressive	the poor Queen			like a dove	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	present	dove	a hawk			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hawk=Stimulus
3	cry out speech: express	past	the poor Queen		this dreadful sight	loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	marry in a quote	shall	dear Dwarf Mr.	you			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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