The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 73

The Princess alone was silent and sorrowful, and had cried all night till her pillow was wet, so much did she take the fate of the beautiful youth to heart.

Who acts: Princess, pillow · What happens: be, cry, take, fate · To what, where: fate, beautiful youth

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Princess, pillow), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 silent	nsubj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 Princess	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 silent	cop
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sorrowful	cc
7	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 silent	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cried	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	aux
11	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 silent	parataxis
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obl:unmarked
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 wet	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pillow	nmod:poss
16	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wet	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wet	cop
18	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cried	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADV	_	24 take	advmod
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 take	nsubj
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fate	det
26	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 youth	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 youth	det
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 youth	amod
30	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fate	nmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 heart	mark
32	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 silent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Princess			silent property	tree rules
2	be		the Princess not said here				tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past · perfect			night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Princess's pillow			wet property	tree rules
5	take	past · do-support	Princess	the fate of the beautiful youth			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Theme
6	fate			the beautiful youth			nom fate «event transitive»: of=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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