The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 74

‘At first I was grieved to see Lolotte cry,’ resumed the Princess, ‘but I soon found that grieving was very troublesome, so I thought it better to be calm, and very soon afterwards I saw the Fairy Mirlifiche arrive, mounted upon her great unicorn.

Who acts: I, Fairy Mirlifiche · What happens: grieve, see, resume, find, be, think · To what, where: I, Lolotte cry, Princess, cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (I, Fairy Mirlifiche), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 resumed	punct
2	At	at	SCONJ	_	6 grieved	mark
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 grieved	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 grieved	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grieved	aux:pass
6	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 resumed	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grieved	xcomp
9	Lolotte	Lolotte	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cry	compound
10	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grieved	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 resumed	punct
13	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 resumed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 resumed	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 resumed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 found	advmod
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 resumed	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 troublesome	mark
23	grieving	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 troublesome	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 troublesome	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 troublesome	advmod
26	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 found	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 thought	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 resumed	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	obj
32	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 thought	xcomp
33	to	to	PART	_	35 calm	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 calm	cop
35	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 better	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 saw	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 saw	cc
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 soon	advmod
39	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 afterwards	advmod
40	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	42 saw	advmod
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 saw	nsubj
42	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 resumed	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Mirlifiche	det
44	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Mirlifiche	compound
45	Mirlifiche	Mirlifiche	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 arrive	nsubj
46	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 saw	ccomp
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 mounted	punct
48	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 arrive	conj
49	upon	upon	ADP	_	52 unicorn	case
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 unicorn	nmod:poss
51	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 unicorn	amod
52	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 mounted	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 resumed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grieve	past · passive		I	first property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		Lolotte cry		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
3	resume	past		the Princess		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
4	find	past	I		soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	grieve	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past			troublesome property	tree rules
7	think speech: other	past	I	cry	good property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
8	is	to-infinitive	I not said here		calm property	tree rules
9	see	past	I		afterwards property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	arrive	present	the Fairy Mirlifiche			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	mount	participle	the Fairy Mirlifiche not said here		upon Mirlifiche's great unicorn	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon unicorn=Destination

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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