The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 55

And her thoughts were so doleful that very soon she began to cry, and she cried, and cried, and forgot all about going back to the palace, until she suddenly saw a handsome page standing before her.

Who acts: thoughts, Graciosa, handsome page · What happens: be, begin, cry, forget, go back, see · To what, where: handsome page

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, Graciosa, handsome page), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 doleful	cc
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 thoughts	nmod:poss
3	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doleful	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doleful	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 doleful	advmod
6	doleful	doleful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 began	mark
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 began	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doleful	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 cry	mark
13	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cried	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	nsubj
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doleful	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 forgot	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 forgot	cc
23	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	conj
24	all	all	ADV	_	23 forgot	advmod
25	about	about	SCONJ	_	26 going	mark
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 forgot	advcl
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 going	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 palace	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 palace	det
30	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 going	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 saw	punct
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	35 saw	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 saw	nsubj
34	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	35 saw	advmod
35	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 forgot	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 page	det
37	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 page	amod
38	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 saw	obj
39	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 page	acl
40	before	before	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 standing	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 doleful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Graciosa's thoughts			doleful property	tree rules
2	begin	past	Graciosa			soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Graciosa not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	past	Graciosa				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cry speech: express	past	Graciosa not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	forget	past	Graciosa not said here			all property	tree rules
7	go back	gerund	Graciosa not said here			to the palace result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
8	see	past	Graciosa	a handsome page		suddenly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer page=Stimulus
9	stand	gerund	a handsome page not said here		before Graciosa		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
10	think		Graciosa				nom thought «cognition 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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