The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 101

Mayblossom, more downcast than ever, went sadly away and sat down under an oak tree, and her tears and sighs were so piteous that the oak fanned her with his rustling leaves, and said:

Who acts: Mayblossom, tears, oak, rustling · What happens: go, sit down, be, fan, leave, say · To what, where: oak tree, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mayblossom, tears, oak, rustling), 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	Mayblossom	Mayblossom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 downcast	punct
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 downcast	advmod
4	downcast	downcast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mayblossom	appos
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 downcast	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mayblossom	punct
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sat	compound:prt
14	under	under	ADP	_	17 tree	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tree	det
16	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tree	compound
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 piteous	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 piteous	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 tears	nmod:poss
21	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 piteous	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sighs	cc
23	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tears	conj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 piteous	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 piteous	advmod
26	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sat	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 fanned	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 oak	det
29	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fanned	nsubj
30	fanned	fan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 piteous	advcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fanned	obj
32	with	with	SCONJ	_	35 leaves	mark
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 rustling	nmod:poss
34	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 leaves	nsubj
35	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fanned	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	parataxis
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Mayblossom			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	Mayblossom not said here		a oak tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
3	is	past	Princess's tears and sighs			piteous property	tree rules
4	fan	past	the oak	Princess			tree rules
5	leave	present	oak's rustling				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	rustle		oak				nom rustling «act 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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