The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 58

But they were all taken in by the image of the King, for, clever as they were, the Mermaid was still cleverer, and all they could do was to help the Fairy of the Desert to make a wonderful monument over what they thought was the grave of the King of the Gold Mines.

Who acts: image, sisters, all · What happens: take in, be, do, make, think, image · To what, where: sisters, wonderful monument, grave, King

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 (image, sisters, all), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 taken	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taken	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 taken	advmod
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 taken	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 image	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 image	det
9	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 King	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 image	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 clever	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 clever	case
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 clever	punct
16	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 taken	conj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 cleverer	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cleverer	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cleverer	cop
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cleverer	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Mermaid	det
22	Mermaid	Mermaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 cleverer	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cleverer	cop
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 cleverer	advmod
25	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 clever	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 help	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 help	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 help	nsubj:outer
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 all	acl:relcl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 help	cop
33	to	to	PART	_	34 help	mark
34	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 taken	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Fairy	det
36	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 help	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Desert	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Desert	det
39	Desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Fairy	nmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 make	mark
41	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 help	advcl
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 monument	det
43	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 monument	amod
44	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 make	obj
45	over	over	ADP	_	46 what	case
46	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 grave	obl
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 thought	nsubj
48	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 what	acl:relcl
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 grave	cop
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 grave	det
51	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 monument	nmod
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 King	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 King	det
54	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 grave	nmod
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 Mines	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 Mines	det
57	Gold	Gold	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Mines	compound
58	Mines	Mines	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 King	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take in	past · passive	the image of the King	sisters = sister			all property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is	past	sisters = sister			still	clever property	tree rules
3	do	could	sisters = sister					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	all				help property	tree rules
5	make	to-infinitive	all not said here	a wonderful monument				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset monument=Product
6	think speech: other	past	sisters = sister					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past		the grave	a wonderful monument		of the King of the Gold Mines	tree rules
8	image			the King				nom image «cognition 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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