The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 72

While she was thus pretending to be sorry for the King, he suddenly noticed her feet, which were like those of a griffin, and knew in a moment that this must be the Fairy of the Desert, for her feet were the one thing she could not change, however pretty she might make her face.

Who acts: Fairy, King, feet, this · What happens: pretend, be, notice, know, not change, make · To what, where: feet, Fairy, one thing, face

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, King, feet, this), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 pretending	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pretending	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pretending	aux
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 pretending	advmod
5	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 noticed	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	8 sorry	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sorry	cop
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pretending	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 King	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sorry	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pretending	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 noticed	nsubj
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 noticed	advmod
15	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 feet	nmod:poss
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 noticed	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 those	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 those	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 those	cop
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 those	case
22	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 feet	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 griffin	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 griffin	det
25	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 those	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knew	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knew	cc
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 noticed	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 moment	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 moment	det
31	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knew	obl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 Fairy	mark
33	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 Fairy	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 Fairy	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 Fairy	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Fairy	det
37	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 moment	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 Desert	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Desert	det
40	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Fairy	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 thing	punct
42	for	for	ADP	_	48 thing	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 feet	nmod:poss
44	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 thing	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 thing	cop
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 thing	det
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 thing	nummod
48	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knew	obl
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 change	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 change	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 change	advmod
52	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 thing	acl:relcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 make	punct
54	however	however	ADV	_	58 make	advmod
55	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	58 make	advmod
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 make	nsubj
57	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 make	aux
58	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 noticed	parataxis
59	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 face	nmod:poss
60	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 make	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past · progressive	Fairy			thus property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	Fairy not said here			for the King; sorry property	tree rules
3	notice	past	King	Fairy's feet		suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus
4	is	past	Fairy's feet			like those; of a griffin	tree rules
5	know	past	King not said here		moment		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	must	this	the Fairy		of the Desert	tree rules
7	is	past	Fairy's feet			for the one thing	tree rules
8	not change	could	Fairy	the one thing not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
9	make	might	Fairy	Fairy's face		however, pretty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Product

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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