The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 39

In despair she cried, ‘Take away these miserable gauds! what pleasure has a wretched captive in the sight of them?’ and then she fell insensible upon the floor, and the cruel Queen laughed maliciously, and went away with Turritella, leaving her there without comfort or aid.

Who acts: Princess, pleasure, cruel Queen · What happens: cry, take away, have, fall, laugh, go away · To what, where: despair, miserable gauds, wretched captive, sight, floor, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Princess, pleasure, cruel Queen), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 despair	case
2	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Take	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Take	punct
7	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cried	ccomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 Take	advmod
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 gauds	det
10	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gauds	amod
11	gauds	gaud	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Take	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Take	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 has	obj
14	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Take	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 captive	det
17	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 captive	amod
18	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 sight	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sight	det
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 captive	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sight	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 Take	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 Take	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fell	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 fell	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fell	nsubj
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
30	insensible	insensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fell	xcomp
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 floor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 floor	det
33	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 laughed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 laughed	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Queen	det
37	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Queen	amod
38	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 laughed	nsubj
39	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
40	maliciously	maliciously	ADV	_	39 laughed	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 went	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 went	cc
43	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
44	away	away	ADV	_	43 went	advmod
45	with	with	ADP	_	46 Turritella	case
46	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 went	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 leaving	punct
48	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 went	advcl
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 leaving	obj
50	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 leaving	advmod
51	without	without	ADP	_	52 comfort	case
52	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 leaving	obl
53	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 aid	cc
54	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 comfort	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Princess		despair			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take away	infinitive		this miserable gauds			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gaud=Theme
3	have	present	pleasure	a wretched captive	the sight of gauds			tree rules
4	fall	past	Princess		the floor	then	insensible property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon floor=Location
5	laugh	past	the cruel Queen				maliciously property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go away	past	Princess not said here				with Turritella; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with turritella=Beneficiary
7	leave	gerund	Princess not said here	Princess	there		without comfort or aid	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
8	sight			gauds = gaud				nom sight «cognition 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 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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