The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 81

The Princess, in great dismay, ran hither and thither all about the wood, tearing her dress, and hurting her pretty white hands with the thorns and brambles, but she could find nothing good to eat, and at last she had to go back sorrowfully to Fanfaronade.

Who acts: Princess, nothing · What happens: run, tear, hurt, find, eat, have · To what, where: dress, pretty white hands, nothing, last

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 (Princess, nothing), 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	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ran	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dismay	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dismay	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dismay	amod
6	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Princess	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	hither	hither	ADV	_	8 ran	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wood	cc
11	thither	thither	ADV	_	12 all	advmod
12	all	all	ADV	_	15 wood	advmod
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tearing	punct
17	tearing	tear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ran	advcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dress	nmod:poss
19	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tearing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hurting	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hurting	cc
22	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 tearing	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hands	nmod:poss
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hands	amod
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hands	amod
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hurting	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 thorns	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 thorns	det
29	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hurting	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 brambles	cc
31	brambles	bramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 thorns	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 find	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 find	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 find	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 find	aux
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ran	conj
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 find	obj
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 nothing	amod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 eat	mark
40	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 good	xcomp
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 had	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 had	cc
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 last	case
44	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 had	obl
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 had	nsubj
46	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ran	conj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 go	mark
48	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 had	xcomp
49	back	back	ADV	_	48 go	advmod
50	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	48 go	advmod
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 Fanfaronade	case
52	Fanfaronade	Fanfaronade	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 sorrowfully	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	the Princess			hither property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tear	gerund	the Princess not said here	Princess's dress			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location dress=Theme
3	hurt	gerund	the Princess not said here	Princess's pretty white hands		with the thorns and brambles	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Patient
4	find	could	Princess	nothing			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
5	eat	to-infinitive	nothing not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	Princess		last		tree rules
7	go back	to-infinitive	Princess not said here			sorrowfully property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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 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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