The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 59

But while they were collecting jasper and porphyry, agate and marble, gold and bronze, statues and devices, to immortalize the King’s memory, he was thanking the good Mermaid and begging her still to help him, which she graciously promised to do as she disappeared; and then he set out for the Castle of Steel.

Who acts: sisters, King, Mermaid · What happens: collect, immortalize, thank, beg, help, promise · To what, where: jasper, memory, good Mermaid, Mermaid, 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 (sisters, King, Mermaid), 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 collecting	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 collecting	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 collecting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 collecting	aux
5	collecting	collect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	jasper	jasper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 collecting	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 porphyry	cc
8	porphyry	porphyry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jasper	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 agate	punct
10	agate	agate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jasper	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 marble	cc
12	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jasper	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gold	punct
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jasper	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bronze	cc
16	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jasper	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 statues	punct
18	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jasper	appos
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 devices	cc
20	devices	device	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 statues	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 immortalize	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 immortalize	mark
23	immortalize	immortalize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 collecting	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 memory	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 King	case
27	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 immortalize	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thanking	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thanking	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 thanking	aux
31	thanking	thank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 collecting	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Mermaid	det
33	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Mermaid	amod
34	Mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thanking	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 begging	cc
36	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 thanking	conj
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 begging	obj
38	still	still	ADV	_	36 begging	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 help	mark
40	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 begging	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 help	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 promised	punct
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 promised	obj
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 promised	nsubj
45	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	46 promised	advmod
46	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 help	advcl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 do	mark
48	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 promised	xcomp
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 disappeared	mark
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 disappeared	nsubj
51	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 do	advcl
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 set	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 set	cc
54	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 set	advmod
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 set	nsubj
56	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 collecting	conj
57	out	out	ADP	_	56 set	compound:prt
58	for	for	ADP	_	60 Castle	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Castle	det
60	Castle	Castle	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 set	obl
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 Steel	case
62	Steel	Steel	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Castle	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 collecting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	collect	past · progressive	sisters = sister	jasper and porphyry and agate and marble and gold and bronze				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jasper=Theme
2	immortalize	to-infinitive	sisters = sister not said here	the King's memory				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent memory=Patient
3	thank speech: thank	past · progressive	King		the good Mermaid			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mermaid=Theme
4	beg speech: request	gerund	King not said here		Mermaid	still		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent her=Recipient
5	help	to-infinitive	King not said here		King			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
6	promise speech: promise	past	Mermaid				graciously property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic
7	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mermaid not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	disappear	past	Mermaid					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	set out	past	King			then	for the Castle of Steel	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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