The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 6
The Fairy came back so delighted that she could not conceal her joy.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: come back, not conceal, joy · To what, where: joy
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 (Fairy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 conceal | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 conceal | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 conceal | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 conceal | advmod |
| 11 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 delighted | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 joy | nmod:poss |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conceal | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the Fairy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not conceal | could | Fairy | Fairy's joy | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient | ||||
| 3 | joy | Fairy | nom joy «feeling 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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