The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 66

And the princess was beside herself with gladness, but when she would have put her arms round him and kissed him he held up his hand to stop her, saying, ‘Touch me not,’ at which she marvelled greatly.

Who acts: princess, brother · What happens: be, put, kiss, hold up, stop, say · To what, where: arms, brother, hand, princess, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, brother), 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	_	8 gladness	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gladness	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gladness	cop
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 herself	case
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 was	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 gladness	case
8	gladness	gladness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 put	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 put	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 put	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 put	aux
15	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 gladness	parataxis
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arms	nmod:poss
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 put	obj
18	round	round	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 kissed	cc
21	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kissed	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 held	nsubj
24	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 kissed	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 held	compound:prt
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hand	nmod:poss
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 held	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 stop	mark
29	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 held	advcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stop	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 saying	punct
32	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 stop	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Touch	punct
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 Touch	punct
35	Touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 saying	ccomp
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 Touch	obj
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 Touch	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Touch	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 Touch	punct
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 marvelled	obl
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 marvelled	nsubj
43	marvelled	marvell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 saying	ccomp
44	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	43 marvelled	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gladness	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess		with gladness	tree rules
2	put	would · perfect	princess	princess's arms	round brother	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal
3	kiss	past	princess not said here	brother		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	hold up	past	brother	brother's hand		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme
5	stop	to-infinitive	brother not said here	princess		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality she=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	gerund	brother not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not touch	infinitive		me		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme
8	marvell	past	princess		greatly 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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