The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 119

Terrified to death, Helena looked up and saw a Fairy standing in front of her, who asked in the kindest way possible, ‘Why are you crying, my dear?’

Who acts: Helena, Fairy standing, you · What happens: look up, see, ask, cry · To what, where: Fairy standing, front, kindest way

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Helena, Fairy standing, you), 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	Terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 death	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 Terrified	fixed
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 death	punct
5	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 looked	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 standing	det
11	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 standing	amod
12	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 standing	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 front	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 asked	nsubj
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 standing	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 way	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	kindest	kind	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asked	obl
24	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 crying	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 crying	punct
27	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 crying	advmod
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 crying	aux
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 crying	nsubj
30	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 asked	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dear	punct
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 dear	nmod:poss
33	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looked	parataxis
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 dear	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look up	past	Helena			terrified death	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	Helena not said here	a Fairy standing	front of HELENA		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer standing=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	past	a Fairy standing		the kindest way		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	present · progressive	you				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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