The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 8
When they saw this portrait they fell in love with the Princess--every one of them, but upon each it had a different effect.
Who acts: ladies, portrait · What happens: see, fall, have · To what, where: portrait, love, different effect
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 (ladies, portrait), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 portrait | det |
| 5 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 portrait | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 love | case |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Princess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Princess | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 each | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 had | obl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 effect | det |
| 25 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 effect | amod |
| 26 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | ladies = lady | this portrait | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portrait=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | ladies = lady | this portrait not said here | love | with the Princess | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient portrait=Result | ||
| 3 | have | past | portrait | a different effect | upon each | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=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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