The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 16

But very soon it was evident that the Beauty had the best of it, and the Dwarf turned her bats’ heads and flickered away in great confusion, while the Fairy came down to where the Princess stood, and said, smiling, ‘You see Princess, I have completely routed that malicious old Carabosse.

Who acts: Fairy, Beauty, Dwarf, Princess, You, I · What happens: be, have, turn, flicker away, come down, stand · To what, where: best, heads, great confusion, Princess, malicious old Carabosse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Fairy, Beauty, Dwarf, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 evident	cc
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 evident	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 evident	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 evident	cop
6	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Beauty	det
9	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 evident	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 best	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 had	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 best	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 turned	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 turned	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Dwarf	det
18	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 turned	nsubj
19	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 evident	parataxis
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bats	nmod:poss
21	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 heads	nmod:poss
22	’	's	PART	_	21 bats	case
23	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 turned	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flickered	cc
25	flickered	flicker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 turned	conj
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 flickered	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 confusion	case
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 confusion	amod
29	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flickered	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 came	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Fairy	det
33	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 turned	conj
35	down	down	ADV	_	34 came	advmod
36	to	to	SCONJ	_	40 stood	mark
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 stood	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Princess	det
39	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 stood	nsubj
40	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 came	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 said	cc
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 stood	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 smiling	punct
45	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 said	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 see	punct
47	‘	'	PUNCT	_	49 see	punct
48	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 see	nsubj
49	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 smiling	conj
50	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 see	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 routed	punct
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 routed	nsubj
53	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 routed	aux
54	completely	completely	ADV	_	55 routed	advmod
55	routed	rout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 turned	conj
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 Carabosse	mark
57	malicious	malicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 Carabosse	amod
58	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 Carabosse	amod
59	Carabosse	Carabosse	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 routed	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 evident	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Fairy			evident, soon property	tree rules
2	have	past	the Beauty	the best			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Patient
3	turn	past	the Dwarf	Dwarf's bats's heads			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	flicker away	past	the Dwarf not said here		great confusion	away property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in confusion=Location
5	come down	past	the Fairy			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	past	the Princess				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	past	the Princess not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	smile	gerund	the Princess not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	see	present	You	Princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
10	rout	present · perfect	I	malicious old Carabosse		completely property	tree rules

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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