The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 127

Full of despair and misery, she was in the act of throwing the spoon away, when suddenly the kind Fairy stood before her again, and asked her why she was so unhappy?

Who acts: HELENA, act, kind Fairy · What happens: be, throw away, stand, ask · To what, where: act, spoon, HELENA

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, act, kind Fairy), 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	Full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 despair	case
3	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Full	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 misery	cc
5	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 despair	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 act	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 act	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 act	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 act	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 act	det
11	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 despair	appos
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 throwing	mark
13	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 act	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spoon	det
15	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throwing	obj
16	away	away	ADV	_	13 throwing	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 stood	advmod
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 Fairy	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Fairy	det
21	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Fairy	amod
22	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Full	conj
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 again	mark
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 again	nmod:poss
26	again	again	ADV	_	23 stood	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 asked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asked	cc
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stood	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 asked	iobj
31	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	35 unhappy	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 unhappy	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 unhappy	cop
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 unhappy	advmod
35	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 asked	advcl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	HELENA			the act			tree rules
2	throw away	gerund	the act not said here	the spoon				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme
3	stand	past	the kind Fairy				again		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	the kind Fairy not said here		HELENA				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	is	past	HELENA					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 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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