The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 13

So saying, he seized her once more, and in spite of all her cries he rapidly bore her off to the neighbourhood of his capital.

Who acts: pleasure, Princess · What happens: say, seize, bear off, spite, cry · To what, where: Princess, spite, cries · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure, 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 seized	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seized	nsubj
5	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seized	obj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 seized	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bore	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bore	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 spite	case
12	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bore	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 cries	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 cries	det:predet
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cries	nmod:poss
16	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 spite	nmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bore	nsubj
18	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	19 bore	advmod
19	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seized	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bore	obj
21	off	off	ADP	_	19 bore	compound:prt
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 neighbourhood	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 neighbourhood	det
24	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bore	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 capital	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 capital	nmod:poss
27	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 neighbourhood	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	pleasure not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	seize	past	pleasure	Princess			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	bear off	past	pleasure	Princess	spite of Princess's cries	to the neighbourhood of pleasure's capital; rapidly property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	spite			Princess's cries			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
5	cry		Princess				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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