The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 43
“Bellissima was sitting in the wood when you passed, and saw you with the Fairy of the Desert, who was so cleverly disguised that the Princess took her to be prettier than herself; you may imagine her despair, for she thought that you had fallen in love with her.”
Who acts: Bellissima, you, Desert, Princess, Mermaid · What happens: sit, pass, see, be, take, imagine · To what, where: wood, you, Mermaid, despair, love · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bellissima, you, Desert, Princess), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
| 2 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | aux |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 passed | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 passed | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Fairy | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fairy | det |
| 17 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Desert | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Desert | det |
| 20 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Fairy | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 disguised | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 disguised | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 disguised | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 disguised | advmod |
| 25 | cleverly | cleverly | ADV | _ | 26 disguised | advmod |
| 26 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Desert | acl:relcl |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 took | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Princess | det |
| 29 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 took | nsubj |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 disguised | advcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 took | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 prettier | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 prettier | cop |
| 34 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 took | xcomp |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 36 herself | case |
| 36 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 prettier | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 imagine | punct |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 imagine | nsubj |
| 39 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 imagine | aux |
| 40 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 passed | conj |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 despair | nmod:poss |
| 42 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 imagine | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 thought | punct |
| 44 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 46 thought | mark |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 thought | nsubj |
| 46 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 imagine | parataxis |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 fallen | mark |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 fallen | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 fallen | aux |
| 50 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 thought | ccomp |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 love | case |
| 52 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 fallen | obl |
| 53 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 her | case |
| 54 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 fallen | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
| 56 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | past · progressive | Bellissima | the wood | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | ||||
| 2 | pass in a quote | past | you | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | you not said here | you | with the Fairy of the Desert | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | the Desert | cleverly, disguise property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | past | the Princess | Mermaid | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | than Mermaid; pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | imagine in a quote | may | you | Mermaid's despair | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot despair=Theme | ||||
| 8 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Mermaid | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | fall in a quote | past · perfect | you | love | with Mermaid | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 10 | despair in a quote | Mermaid | nom despair «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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