The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 36

In spite of the blow which the Fairy of the Desert gave her, the Yellow Dwarf compelled her to mount behind him upon his terrible Spanish cat; but she soon fainted away with pain and terror, and did not recover till they were within the walls of his frightful Castle of Steel.

Who acts: blow, Yellow Dwarf, Fairy, Dwarf · What happens: give, compel, mount, faint away, not recover, be · To what, where: Fairy, spite, blow

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blow, Yellow Dwarf, Fairy, Dwarf), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 compelled	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 blow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 blow	det
5	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spite	nmod
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 gave	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fairy	det
8	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 gave	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Desert	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Desert	det
11	Desert	Desert	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Fairy	nmod
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blow	acl:relcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spite	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Dwarf	det
16	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Dwarf	amod
17	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 compelled	nsubj
18	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 compelled	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 mount	mark
21	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 compelled	xcomp
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 mount	obl
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 cat	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 cat	nmod:poss
26	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cat	amod
27	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cat	amod
28	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mount	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 fainted	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 fainted	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fainted	nsubj
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 fainted	advmod
33	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 compelled	parataxis
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 fainted	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 pain	case
36	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fainted	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 terror	cc
38	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pain	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 recover	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 recover	cc
41	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 recover	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 recover	advmod
43	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 fainted	conj
44	till	till	ADP	_	49 walls	case
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 walls	nsubj
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 walls	cop
47	within	within	ADP	_	49 walls	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 walls	det
49	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 recover	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 Castle	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 Castle	nmod:poss
52	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 Castle	amod
53	Castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 walls	nmod
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 Steel	case
55	Steel	Steel	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Castle	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 compelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the blow		Fairy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	compel	past	the Yellow Dwarf	Fairy		spite of the blow			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
3	mount	to-infinitive	the Yellow Dwarf not said here					behind weed; upon weed's terrible Spanish cat	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind he=Destination
4	faint away	past	Fairy					with pain and terror; away, soon property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not recover	past · do-support	Fairy not said here						vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Dwarf				till the walls	of weed's frightful Castle of Steel	tree rules
7	spite			the blow					nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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.

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