The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 96
So saying, in spite of Bellissima’s tears and cries, he stabbed the King to the heart with the diamond sword.
Who acts: Bellissima · What happens: say, stab, spite · To what, where: spite, King, tears · 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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stabbed | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spite | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 spite | case |
| 5 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saying | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tears | case |
| 7 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Bellissima | case |
| 9 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spite | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cries | cc |
| 11 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tears | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stabbed | nsubj |
| 14 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 stabbed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heart | det |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stabbed | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 sword | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sword | det |
| 22 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sword | compound |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heart | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stabbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Bellissima not said here | spite of Bellissima's tears and cries | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in spite=Manner | ||||
| 2 | stab | past | Bellissima | the King | to the heart with the diamond sword result | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent king=Patient to heart=Result | |||
| 3 | spite | Bellissima's tears and cries | nom spite «feeling 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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