The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 89
The Fairy of the Desert had also seen Bellissima, and she tried to read in the King’s eyes the effect that this unexpected sight had had upon him.
Who acts: Fairy, unexpected sight · What happens: see, try, read, have · To what, where: Fairy, effect, eyes
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, unexpected sight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Desert | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Desert | det |
| 5 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fairy | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 seen | advmod |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tried | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tried | nsubj |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 read | mark |
| 15 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 King | case |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 read | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 effect | det |
| 22 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 read | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 had | mark |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 sight | det |
| 25 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sight | amod |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 had | aux |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 effect | acl:relcl |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect · passive | the Fairy of the Desert | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | past | Fairy | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | read not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fairy not said here | the effect | the King's eyes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Topic | |||
| 4 | have | past · perfect | this unexpected sight | the effect not said here | upon King | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/89/