The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 15
They said good-by to the Princess so sadly that she could not help being sorry for them.
Who acts: rivals, Princess · What happens: say, not help, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rivals, Princess), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | xcomp |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Princess | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Princess | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 sadly | advmod |
| 10 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 17 sorry | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 help | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 help | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 help | advmod |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sorry | csubj |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sorry | cop |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sorry | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | rivals = rival | by the Princess; good property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not help | could | Princess | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | for rivals = rival; sadly, sorry property | tree rules |
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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