The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 2

The poor beast was all torn and bleeding, and the kind little Princess was quite unhappy about it.

Who acts: kind little Princess · What happens: tear, be · To what, where: poor beast

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind little 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beast	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beast	amod
3	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 torn	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 torn	aux:pass
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 torn	advmod
6	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bleeding	cc
8	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 torn	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 unhappy	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 unhappy	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Princess	det
12	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Princess	amod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Princess	amod
14	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 unhappy	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 unhappy	cop
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 unhappy	advmod
17	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 torn	conj
18	about	about	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 unhappy	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 torn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	past · passive		the poor beast				all property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	past	the kind little Princess					about beast; unhappy 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 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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