The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 69
“Alas! beautiful Fairy, the fairy who brought me here first took away my sight, but by her voice I recognized her as the Fairy of the Desert, though what she should have carried me off for I cannot tell you.”
Who acts: fairy, beautiful Fairy, altered appearance, my · What happens: bring, take away, recognize, carry off, not tell, sight · To what, where: altered appearance, sight, Fairy, you · 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 (fairy, beautiful Fairy, altered appearance, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 Fairy | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Fairy | amod |
| 5 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fairy | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fairy | det |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Fairy | appos |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obj |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 brought | advmod |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 brought | advmod |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | away | away | ADP | _ | 14 took | compound:prt |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sight | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 recognized | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 recognized | cc |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 voice | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 voice | nmod:poss |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 recognized | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 recognized | nsubj |
| 24 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 recognized | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 Fairy | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Fairy | det |
| 28 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 recognized | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Desert | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Desert | det |
| 31 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Fairy | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 what | punct |
| 33 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 what | mark |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 recognized | parataxis |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 carried | nsubj |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 carried | aux |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 carried | aux |
| 38 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 what | acl:relcl |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 carried | obj |
| 40 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 carried | compound:prt |
| 41 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 45 tell | mark |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 tell | nsubj |
| 43 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 tell | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 tell | advmod |
| 45 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 carried | parataxis |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 tell | iobj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | past | the fairy | misfortune's altered appearance = appearance | here | first property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||
| 2 | take away in a quote | past | beautiful Fairy | my sight | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | recognize in a quote | past | misfortune's altered appearance = appearance | Fairy | by Fairy's voice; as the Fairy of the Desert | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus as fairy=Attribute | |||
| 4 | carry off in a quote | should · perfect | Fairy | misfortune's altered appearance = appearance | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | can | misfortune's altered appearance = appearance | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | sight in a quote | my | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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