The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 58
Her fond mother, feeling as much hurt by the blow as the Princess herself, uttered such piercing cries and lamentations that the King, hearing them, entirely lost his courage and presence of mind.
Who acts: fond mother, blow, King · What happens: feel, hurt, utter, hear, lose · To what, where: much, such piercing cries, courage
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 (fond mother, blow, King), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mother | amod |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 uttered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feeling | punct |
| 5 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 mother | acl |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 feeling | xcomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 blow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 blow | det |
| 11 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurt | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Princess | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 blow | nmod |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 Princess | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 uttered | punct |
| 17 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cries | amod |
| 19 | piercing | piercing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cries | compound |
| 20 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 uttered | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lamentations | cc |
| 22 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cries | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 hearing | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 hearing | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hearing | punct |
| 27 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 cries | acl |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hearing | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lost | punct |
| 30 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 31 lost | advmod |
| 31 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 uttered | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 courage | nmod:poss |
| 33 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lost | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 presence | cc |
| 35 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 courage | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 mind | case |
| 37 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 presence | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | griffin's fond mother not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurt | participle · passive | the blow as the Princess blow | much | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | past | griffin's fond mother | such piercing cries and lamentations | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hear | gerund | the King | such piercing cries and lamentations | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lose | past | griffin's fond mother not said here | King's courage and presence of mind | entirely property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Eventuality |
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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