The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 9

One fell ill, one went quite crazy, and a few of the luckiest set off to see her as soon as possible, but these poor princes became her slaves the moment they set eyes on her.

Who acts: One, poor princes, queen, princes · What happens: fall, go, set off, see, become, slave · To what, where: queen, eyes

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 (One, poor princes, queen, princes), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 crazy	advmod
8	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 few	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 few	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 few	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 luckiest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 luckiest	det
15	luckiest	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 few	nmod
16	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 luckiest	acl
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 set	compound:prt
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 set	advcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	obj
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 soon	advmod
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 see	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 possible	mark
24	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 soon	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 became	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 became	cc
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 princes	det
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 princes	amod
29	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 became	nsubj
30	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 luckiest	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 slaves	nsubj
32	slaves	slave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 became	ccomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 moment	det
34	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 slaves	obj
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 set	nsubj
36	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 moment	acl:relcl
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 set	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 set	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	One			ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	one			crazy property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	set off	participle					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive		queen		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	become	past	this poor princes				tree rules
6	slave	present	queen		moment		tree rules
7	set	past	princes = prince	eyes		on queen	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on she=Destination

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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