The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 69
The more she hunted for it, the more frightened she got, and at last she began to cry.
Who acts: Bellissima, frightened · What happens: hunt, get, begin, cry
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, frightened), 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 more | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 hunted | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hunted | nsubj |
| 4 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hunted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 frightened | det |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 frightened | advmod |
| 10 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 got | nsubj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunted | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 last | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 last | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 got | xcomp |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 began | nsubj |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 last | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 cry | mark |
| 20 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | Bellissima | for tree | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the frightened | last property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Bellissima | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | Bellissima not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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