The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 73
She was seated by the brook looking pale and weary when he reached her, and he would have thrown himself down at her feet, but she drew herself away from him with as much indignation as if he had been the Yellow Dwarf.
Who acts: brook, King, Princess · What happens: seat, look, reach, throw down, draw away, be · To what, where: Princess, King, feet
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 (brook, King, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | aux:pass |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 brook | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brook | det |
| 6 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 seated | advcl |
| 8 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looking | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 weary | cc |
| 10 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pale | conj |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 reached | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 weary | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thrown | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thrown | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 thrown | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thrown | aux |
| 20 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seated | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 thrown | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 thrown | compound:prt |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 feet | nmod:poss |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 thrown | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drew | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 drew | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 drew | nsubj |
| 29 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | conj |
| 30 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 drew | obj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 drew | advmod |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 drew | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 indignation | case |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | _ | 36 much | advmod |
| 36 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 indignation | amod |
| 37 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drew | obl |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 Dwarf | case |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 Dwarf | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 Dwarf | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 Dwarf | aux |
| 42 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 Dwarf | cop |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Dwarf | det |
| 44 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 Dwarf | amod |
| 45 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 drew | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | the brook | Princess | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the brook not said here | pale property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | King | Princess | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw down | would · perfect · passive | King | Princess's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination himself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | draw away | past | Princess | Princess | from King; with much indignation; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent herself=Theme from he=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | King | as the Yellow Dwarf | tree rules |
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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