The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 57
Struck with astonishment and sorrow, she uttered a terrible cry, and threw herself down beside the pretended King, weeping, and howling, and calling upon her eleven sisters, who were also fairies, and who came to her assistance.
Who acts: rest, eleven sisters · What happens: strike, utter, throw down, pretend, weep, howl · To what, where: terrible cry, rest, fairies, assistance · 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 (rest, eleven sisters), 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 | Struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 uttered | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 astonishment | case |
| 3 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Struck | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sorrow | cc |
| 5 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 astonishment | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Struck | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 uttered | nsubj |
| 8 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cry | det |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cry | amod |
| 11 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 uttered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 threw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 uttered | parataxis |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 threw | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 threw | compound:prt |
| 17 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 19 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 King | amod |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 threw | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 weeping | punct |
| 22 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 threw | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 howling | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 howling | cc |
| 25 | howling | howl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 weeping | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 calling | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 calling | cc |
| 28 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 weeping | conj |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 sisters | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 31 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 sisters | nummod |
| 32 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 calling | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fairies | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 fairies | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 fairies | cop |
| 36 | also | also | ADV | _ | 37 fairies | advmod |
| 37 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 sisters | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 came | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 came | cc |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 came | nsubj |
| 41 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 uttered | conj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 assistance | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 44 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 came | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | participle | rest not said here | with astonishment and sorrow | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with astonishment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | rest | a terrible cry | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 3 | throw down | past | rest | beside the pretended King | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme beside king=Destination | ||||
| 4 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | weep | gerund | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | howl | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | call | gerund | upon rest's eleven sisters and fairies | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is a | past | rest's eleven sisters and fairies | fairies | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | come | past | rest's assistance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to assistance=Initial_Location | |||||
| 10 | assist | rest | nom assistance «act transitive»: 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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