The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 21

‘Did I not see her caught up into the air, in spite of cries which would have softened the heart of any one but the barbarian who has robbed me of her?

Who acts: I · What happens: not see, catch up, soften, rob, spite · To what, where: spite, air, barbarian, cries · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
2	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 caught	nmod:poss
7	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 see	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 caught	compound:prt
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 air	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spite	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 spite	case
14	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 cries	case
16	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spite	nmod
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 softened	nsubj:pass
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 softened	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 softened	aux
20	softened	soften	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 spite	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 heart	det
22	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 softened	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 one	case
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heart	nmod
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 barbarian	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 barbarian	det
28	barbarian	barbarian	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 one	conj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 robbed	nsubj:pass
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 robbed	aux
31	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 barbarian	acl:relcl
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 robbed	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 robbed	obl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	I		spite of cries		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	catch up	participle			the air		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	soften	would · perfect · passive		spite of cries			tree rules
4	rob	present · perfect · passive		the barbarian		of daughter	tree rules
5	spite			cries			nom spite «feeling 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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