The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 37

Here she was received by the prettiest girls it was possible to find, who had been carried there by the Yellow Dwarf, who hastened to wait upon her and showed her every possible attention.

Who acts: prettiest girls, it, Yellow Dwarf · What happens: receive, be, find, carry, hasten, wait · To what, where: Fairy, prettiest girls, possible attention

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 (prettiest girls, it, Yellow 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 received	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 received	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 received	aux:pass
4	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 girls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girls	det
7	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 girls	amod
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 received	obl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 possible	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 possible	cop
11	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girls	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 find	mark
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 possible	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carried	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 carried	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 carried	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 carried	aux:pass
18	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 received	conj
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 carried	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 Dwarf	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Dwarf	det
22	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Dwarf	amod
23	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 carried	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hastened	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 hastened	nsubj
26	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Dwarf	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 wait	mark
28	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hastened	xcomp
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wait	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 showed	cc
32	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hastened	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 showed	iobj
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 attention	det
35	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 attention	amod
36	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 showed	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past · passive	the prettiest girls	Fairy		here		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is	past	it	the prettiest girls not said here			possible property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	carry	past · perfect · passive	the Yellow Dwarf			there		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	hasten	past	the Yellow Dwarf					tree rules
6	wait	to-infinitive	the Yellow Dwarf not said here				upon Fairy	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location
7	show	past	the Yellow Dwarf not said here	every possible attention	Fairy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient attention=Topic

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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