The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 60

The unhappy Queen, seeing all at once what a miserable life her daughter would have with this Dwarf could not bear the idea, and fell down insensible without saying a word.

Who acts: miserable life, unhappy Queen · What happens: see, have, not bear, fall down, say · To what, where: idea, word · 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 (miserable life, unhappy Queen), 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	3 Queen	det
2	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Queen	amod
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 bear	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Queen	punct
5	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 bear	csubj
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 once	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 seeing	advmod
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 have	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 life	det
11	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 life	amod
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	nsubj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seeing	ccomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 Dwarf	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 Dwarf	det
19	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 have	obl
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bear	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 bear	advmod
22	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 idea	det
24	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bear	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bear	conj
28	down	down	ADV	_	29 insensible	advmod
29	insensible	insensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fell	xcomp
30	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 saying	mark
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 fell	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 word	det
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saying	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund			once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	would	a miserable life		with this Dwarf	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
3	not bear	could	the unhappy Queen	the idea		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
4	fall down	past	the unhappy Queen not said here		insensible property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	the unhappy Queen not said here	a word		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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