The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 57

For the Fairy of the Desert, looking more terrible than before, mounted upon a winged griffin, and with long snakes coiled round her neck, had given her such a blow with the lance she carried that Bellissima fell into the Queen’s arms bleeding and senseless.

Who acts: blow, Bellissima, arms · What happens: look, mount, wing, coil, give, carry · To what, where: long snakes, neck, griffin, arms

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 (blow, Bellissima, arms), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 Fairy	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Desert	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Desert	det
6	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looking	punct
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 terrible	advmod
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looking	xcomp
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 before	case
12	before	before	ADV	_	10 terrible	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mounted	punct
14	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 looking	conj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 griffin	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 griffin	det
17	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 griffin	amod
18	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mounted	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 given	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 given	cc
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 snakes	case
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 snakes	amod
23	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 given	obl
24	coiled	coil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 snakes	acl
25	round	round	ADP	_	27 neck	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 neck	nmod:poss
27	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 coiled	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 snakes	punct
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 given	aux
30	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 looking	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 given	obj
32	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	34 blow	det:predet
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 blow	det
34	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 carried	nsubj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 lance	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lance	det
37	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blow	nmod
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 carried	nsubj
39	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 given	parataxis
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 fell	mark
41	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 fell	nsubj
42	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 carried	advcl
43	into	into	ADP	_	47 arms	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Queen	det
45	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 arms	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 Queen	case
47	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 fell	obl
48	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 arms	acl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 senseless	cc
50	senseless	senseless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 bleeding	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	gerund				for the Fairy; of the Desert; terrible property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent of desert=Theme
2	mount	participle				upon a winged griffin	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon griffin=Destination
3	wing	participle					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	coil	participle		long snakes not said here	griffin's neck		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round neck=Destination
5	give	past · perfect		griffin		with long snakes	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	carry	past	such blow with the lance				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	fall	past	Bellissima			into the Queen's arms result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into arm=Result
8	bleed	gerund	the Queen's arms not said here				vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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