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The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 73

“Alas!” she answered; “no wonder that I am crying, seeing that I have lost the basket of cake that was to help me to get safely to the cave of the Fairy of the Desert.”

Who acts: Bellissima, wonder, basket · What happens: answer, cry, see, lose, be, get · To what, where: wonder, basket · 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 (Bellissima, wonder, basket), 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

punctdiscoursepunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctdetobjnsubjnsubjauxacl:relclpunctadvclmarknsubjauxccompdetobjcasenmodnsubjcopmarkacl:relclobjmarkxcompadvmodcasedetoblcasedetnmodcasedetnmodpunctpunctroot“PUNCTAlasINTJ!PUNCT”PUNCTshePRONansweredVERB;PUNCT“PUNCTnoDETwonderNOUNthatPRONIPRONamAUXcryingVERB,PUNCTseeingVERBthatSCONJIPRONhaveAUXlostVERBtheDETbasketNOUNofADPcakeNOUNthatPRONwasAUXtoPARThelpVERBmePRONtoPARTgetVERBsafelyADVtoADPtheDETcaveNOUNofADPtheDETFairyPROPNofADPtheDETDesertPROPN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_6 answeredpunct
2AlasalasINTJ_6 answereddiscourse
3!!PUNCT_2 Alaspunct
4”"PUNCT_2 Alaspunct
5sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 answerednsubj
6answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7;;PUNCT_10 wonderpunct
8“"PUNCT_10 wonderpunct
9nonoDETPronType=Neg10 wonderdet
10wonderwonderNOUNNumber=Sing6 answeredobj
11thatthatPRONPronType=Rel14 cryingnsubj
12IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 cryingnsubj
13ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 cryingaux
14cryingcryVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 wonderacl:relcl
15,,PUNCT_16 seeingpunct
16seeingseeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 answeredadvcl
17thatthatSCONJ_20 lostmark
18IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs20 lostnsubj
19havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 lostaux
20lostloseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part16 seeingccomp
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 basketdet
22basketbasketNOUNNumber=Sing20 lostobj
23ofofADP_24 cakecase
24cakecakeNOUNNumber=Sing22 basketnmod
25thatthatPRONPronType=Rel28 helpnsubj
26wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 helpcop
27totoPART_28 helpmark
28helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf22 basketacl:relcl
29meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs28 helpobj
30totoPART_31 getmark
31getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf28 helpxcomp
32safelysafelyADV_31 getadvmod
33totoADP_35 cavecase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 cavedet
35cavecaveNOUNNumber=Sing31 getobl
36ofofADP_38 Fairycase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 Fairydet
38FairyFairyPROPNNumber=Sing35 cavenmod
39ofofADP_41 Desertcase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 Desertdet
41DesertDesertPROPNNumber=Sing38 Fairynmod
42..PUNCT_6 answeredpunct
43”"PUNCT_6 answeredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1answer speech: assertpastBellissimano wondervn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wonder=Eventuality
2cry speech: express in a quotepresent · progressiveno wondervn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3see in a quotegerundBellissima not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4lose in a quotepresent · perfectBellissimathe basket of cakevn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Eventuality
5is in a quotepastthe basket of cakethe basket of cake not said herehelp propertytree rules
6get in a quoteto-infinitivethe basket of cake not said hereto the cave of the Fairy of the Desert result; safely propertyvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result

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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