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The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 97

The poor Princess, seeing her lover lying dead at her feet, could no longer live without him; she sank down by him and died of a broken heart.

Who acts: poor Princess, Princess · What happens: see, lie, live, sink down, die, break · To what, where: lover, 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 (poor Princess, 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

detamodnsubjpunctaclnmod:possobjconjxcompcasenmod:possoblpunctauxadvmodadvmodcaseoblpunctnsubjparataxiscompound:prtcaseoblccconjcasedetamodoblpunctrootTheDETpoorADJPrincessPROPN,PUNCTseeingVERBherPRONloverNOUNlyingVERBdeadADJatADPherPRONfeetNOUN,PUNCTcouldAUXnoADVlongerADVliveVERBwithoutADPhimPRON;PUNCTshePRONsankVERBdownADPbyADPhimPRONandCCONJdiedVERBofADPaDETbrokenVERBheartNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Princessdet
2poorpoorADJDegree=Pos3 Princessamod
3PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing17 livensubj
4,,PUNCT_5 seeingpunct
5seeingseeVERBVerbForm=Ger3 Princessacl
6herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 lovernmod:poss
7loverloverNOUNNumber=Sing5 seeingobj
8lyinglieVERBVerbForm=Ger5 seeingconj
9deaddeadADJDegree=Pos8 lyingxcomp
10atatADP_12 feetcase
11herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 feetnmod:poss
12feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur8 lyingobl
13,,PUNCT_3 Princesspunct
14couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin17 liveaux
15nonoADV_16 longeradvmod
16longerlongADVDegree=Cmp17 liveadvmod
17liveliveVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
18withoutwithoutADP_19 himcase
19himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 liveobl
20;;PUNCT_22 sankpunct
21sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 sanknsubj
22sanksinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 liveparataxis
23downdownADP_22 sankcompound:prt
24bybyADP_25 himcase
25himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 sankobl
26andandCCONJ_27 diedcc
27dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 sankconj
28ofofADP_31 heartcase
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 heartdet
30brokenbreakVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass31 heartamod
31heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing27 diedobl
32..PUNCT_17 livepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seegerundthe poor Princess not said herePrincess's lovervn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lover=Stimulus
2liegerundthe poor Princess not said herePrincess's feetdead propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
3livecouldthe poor Princesswithout Bellissima; long propertyvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4sink downpastPrincessby Bellissimavn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5diepastPrincess not said hereof a broken heartvn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of heart=Causer
6breakparticiplevn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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