The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 62

This new misfortune was the work of the wicked Fairy of the Desert, who had come with the Yellow Dwarf to help him carry off the Princess, and had fallen in love with the handsome young King of the Gold Mines directly she saw him.

Who acts: new misfortune, Desert, Dwarf, Princess · What happens: be, come, help, carry off, fall, see · To what, where: work, Dwarf, Princess, love, King

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 (new misfortune, Desert, Dwarf, 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 misfortune	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 misfortune	amod
3	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 work	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Fairy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fairy	det
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Fairy	amod
10	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Desert	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Desert	det
13	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Fairy	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 come	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 Desert	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 Dwarf	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Dwarf	det
20	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Dwarf	amod
21	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 help	mark
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 help	obj
25	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 help	xcomp
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 carry	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Princess	det
28	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carry	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fallen	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fallen	cc
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fallen	aux
32	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 work	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 love	case
34	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fallen	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	39 King	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 King	det
37	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 King	amod
38	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 King	amod
39	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 fallen	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 Mines	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Mines	det
42	Gold	Gold	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Mines	compound
43	Mines	Mines	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 King	nmod
44	directly	directly	ADV	_	46 saw	advmod
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 saw	nsubj
46	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fallen	advcl
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 saw	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this new misfortune	the work		of the wicked Fairy of the Desert	tree rules
2	come	past · perfect	the Desert			with the Yellow Dwarf	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help	to-infinitive	the Desert not said here	Dwarf			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	carry off	infinitive	Dwarf not said here	the Princess			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
5	fall	past · perfect	this new misfortune not said here		love	with the handsome young King of the Gold Mines	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
6	see	past	Princess	King		directly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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