The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 85

“Beautiful Princess,” cried the Dwarf suddenly, throwing himself on his knees before her, “I flatter myself that you will not be displeased at her choice when I tell you that it is to _me_ she has promised the happiness of marrying you.”

Who acts: Beautiful Princess, choice, Princess, happiness · What happens: cry, throw, flatter, not displease, tell, be · To what, where: Dwarf, knees, Beautiful Princess, you, choice, happiness · 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 (Beautiful Princess, choice, Princess, happiness), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 Princess	punct
2	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Princess	amod
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Princess	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Princess	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Dwarf	det
8	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 cried	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 throwing	punct
11	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cried	advcl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 throwing	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 knees	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 knees	nmod:poss
15	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 throwing	obl
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 throwing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flatter	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 flatter	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 flatter	nsubj
21	flatter	flatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
22	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 flatter	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 displeased	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 displeased	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 displeased	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 displeased	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 displeased	aux:pass
28	displeased	displease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 tell	advcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 choice	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 choice	nmod:poss
31	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 displeased	obl
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 tell	advmod
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 tell	nsubj
34	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 flatter	advcl
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 tell	iobj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 _	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 _	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 _	cop
39	to	to	PART	_	40 _	mark
40	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 tell	ccomp
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 _	obj
42	_	_	PUNCT	_	45 promised	punct
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 promised	nsubj
44	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 promised	aux
45	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 _	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 happiness	det
47	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 promised	obj
48	of	of	SCONJ	_	49 marrying	mark
49	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 happiness	acl
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 marrying	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Beautiful Princess	the Dwarf				suddenly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic
2	throw	gerund	Beautiful Princess not said here	Dwarf		Dwarf's knees	before Princess		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on knee=Destination
3	flatter in a quote	present	Beautiful Princess = princess	Beautiful Princess = princess					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer
4	not displease in a quote	future · passive		you		Princess's choice			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Beautiful Princess = princess		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	is not said to happen, in a quote	present	choice					_ property	tree rules
7	promise speech: promise in a quote	present · perfect	Princess	the happiness					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme
8	marry in a quote	gerund	the happiness not said here	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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