The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 83
Bellissima was sitting in a little thicket by a brook, leaning her head upon her hand and weeping bitterly, but just as they passed she looked up and saw the King and the Fairy of the Desert.
Who acts: Bellissima, princes · What happens: sit, lean, weep, pass, look up, see · To what, where: little thicket, head, hand, 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 (Bellissima, princes), 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 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sitting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sitting | aux |
| 3 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 thicket | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thicket | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thicket | amod |
| 7 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sitting | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 brook | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 brook | det |
| 10 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thicket | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaning | punct |
| 12 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sitting | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaning | obj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaning | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 weeping | cc |
| 19 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 leaning | conj |
| 20 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 19 weeping | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 passed | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 passed | cc |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 passed | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 passed | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 passed | nsubj |
| 26 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sitting | parataxis |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 looked | nsubj |
| 28 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 passed | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 looked | compound:prt |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 saw | cc |
| 31 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 passed | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 King | det |
| 33 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 saw | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Fairy | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Fairy | det |
| 36 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 King | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Desert | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Desert | det |
| 39 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Fairy | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | Bellissima | a little thicket by a brook | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thicket=Location | ||||
| 2 | lean | gerund | Bellissima not said here | Bellissima's head | Bellissima's hand | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme upon hand=Destination | |||
| 3 | weep | gerund | Bellissima not said here | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pass | past | princes = prince | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look up | past | Bellissima | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | see | past | princes = prince not said here | the King and the Fairy of the Desert | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=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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