The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 79

“Ah!” cried Bellissima, “did I not see you flying through the air with the loveliest being imaginable?

Who acts: Bellissima, you, loveliest · What happens: cry, do, not see, fly, be · To what, where: you, air · 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 (Bellissima, you, loveliest), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 did	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 see	obj
14	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 see	xcomp
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 air	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 air	det
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flying	obl
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	22 imaginable	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 imaginable	det
20	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 imaginable	nsubj
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 imaginable	cop
22	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flying	advcl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Bellissima				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do in a quote	past	Bellissima not said here				tree rules
3	not see in a quote	present	Bellissima	you			tree rules
4	fly in a quote	gerund	you not said here		the air		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
5	is in a quote	gerund	loveliest			imaginable property	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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