The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 88

While she was saying this, the King, who really loved her as much as ever, was feeling terribly sad at being so rapidly torn away from his beloved Princess, but he knew too well how powerful the Fairy was to have any hope of escaping from her except by great patience and cunning.

Who acts: Princess, King, powerful Fairy, hope · What happens: say, love, feel, tear away, know, have · To what, where: this, Princess, hope · 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 (Princess, King, powerful Fairy, hope), 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	_	4 saying	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	aux
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 loved	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 saying	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 loved	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 loved	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 loved	nsubj
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 loved	advmod
12	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 loved	obj
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 loved	obj
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 ever	case
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 much	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 feeling	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 feeling	aux
20	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 loved	conj
21	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	22 sad	advmod
22	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feeling	xcomp
23	at	at	SCONJ	_	27 torn	mark
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 torn	aux:pass
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 torn	advmod
26	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	27 torn	advmod
27	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 feeling	advcl
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 torn	advmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 Princess	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 Princess	nmod:poss
31	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Princess	amod
32	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 torn	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 knew	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 knew	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 knew	nsubj
36	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 loved	parataxis
37	too	too	ADV	_	38 well	advmod
38	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 powerful	advmod
39	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 powerful	advmod
40	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Fairy	amod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Fairy	det
42	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 have	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 have	aux
44	to	to	PART	_	45 have	mark
45	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 knew	ccomp
46	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	47 hope	det
47	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 have	obj
48	of	of	SCONJ	_	49 escaping	mark
49	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 hope	acl
50	from	from	ADP	_	51 her	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 escaping	obj
52	except	except	ADP	_	55 patience	case
53	by	by	ADP	_	55 patience	case
54	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 patience	amod
55	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 escaping	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 cunning	cc
57	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 patience	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · progressive	Princess	this		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	love	past	the King	Princess		tree rules
3	feel	past · progressive	the King not said here		sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	tear away	gerund · passive	the King not said here		from King's beloved Princess; away, rapidly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: from princess=Trajectory
5	know	past	King			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	past	the powerful Fairy	any hope		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
7	escape	gerund	any hope not said here	Princess	except great patience and cunning	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme her=Initial_Location

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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