The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 4, sentence 1

The kind Mermaid, grieved at the sad fate of the lovers, caused them to be changed into two tall palm trees, which stand always side by side, whispering together of their faithful love and caressing one another with their interlacing branches.

Who acts: kind Mermaid, two tall palm trees, trees · What happens: grieve, cause, change, stand, whisper, caress · To what, where: kind Mermaid, sad fate, lovers, two tall palm trees, side, one

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind Mermaid, two tall palm trees, trees), 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	3 Mermaid	det
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Mermaid	amod
3	Mermaid	Mermaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 caused	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grieved	punct
5	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Mermaid	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 fate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fate	det
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fate	amod
9	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grieved	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 lovers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lovers	det
12	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fate	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Mermaid	punct
14	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 caused	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 changed	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 changed	aux:pass
18	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 caused	ccomp
19	into	into	ADP	_	23 trees	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 trees	nummod
21	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 trees	amod
22	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trees	compound
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 changed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stand	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 stand	nsubj
26	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 trees	acl:relcl
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 side	advmod
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	obl
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 side	case
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 whispering	punct
32	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 stand	advcl
33	together	together	ADV	_	32 whispering	advmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 love	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 love	nmod:poss
36	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 love	amod
37	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 whispering	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 caressing	cc
39	caressing	caress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 whispering	conj
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 caressing	obj
41	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	40 one	fixed
42	with	with	ADP	_	45 branches	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 branches	nmod:poss
44	interlacing	interlace	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 branches	amod
45	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 caressing	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grieve	participle		the kind Mermaid not said here	the sad fate of the lovers		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	cause	past	the kind Mermaid	lovers = lover			tree rules
3	change	to-infinitive · passive	the kind Mermaid not said here			into two tall palm trees result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into tree=Result
4	stand	present	two tall palm trees	side		by side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
5	whisper speech: assert	gerund	two tall palm trees not said here			of trees's faithful love; together property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	caress	gerund	two tall palm trees not said here	one		with trees's interlacing branches	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent one=Experiencer with branch=Instrument
7	interlace	gerund					vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	fate			the lovers			nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient
9	love		trees = tree				nom love «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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