The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 106
“Charming Princess, I know all the hen told you, but you cannot have heard that the zephyrs, to whom was entrusted the task of carrying my son to the tower where the Queen, your mother, so anxiously waited for him, left him instead in a garden of flowers, while they flew off to tell your mother.
Who acts: Felicia, hen, you, task, Queen, zephyrs · What happens: charm, know, tell, not hear, entrust, carry · To what, where: Princess, you, zephyrs, son, tower, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia, hen, you, task), 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 | _ | 2 Charming | punct |
| 2 | Charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Charming | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Charming | parataxis |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 hen | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hen | det |
| 9 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 heard | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 heard | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 heard | aux |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 told | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 entrusted | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 zephyrs | det |
| 21 | zephyrs | zephyr | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 entrusted | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 entrusted | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 whom | case |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 entrusted | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 entrusted | aux:pass |
| 26 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 heard | ccomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 task | det |
| 28 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 entrusted | obj |
| 29 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 carrying | mark |
| 30 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 task | acl |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 son | nmod:poss |
| 32 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 carrying | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 tower | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tower | det |
| 35 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 carrying | obl |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 waited | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Queen | det |
| 38 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 waited | nsubj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 mother | punct |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 mother | nmod:poss |
| 41 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Queen | appos |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 waited | punct |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 waited | advmod |
| 44 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 45 waited | advmod |
| 45 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 tower | acl:relcl |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 waited | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 left | punct |
| 49 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 waited | conj |
| 50 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 left | obj |
| 51 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 54 garden | advmod |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 garden | case |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 garden | det |
| 54 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 left | obl |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 flowers | case |
| 56 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 garden | nmod |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 flew | punct |
| 58 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 60 flew | mark |
| 59 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 flew | nsubj |
| 60 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 left | conj |
| 61 | off | off | ADP | _ | 60 flew | compound:prt |
| 62 | to | to | PART | _ | 63 tell | mark |
| 63 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 60 flew | xcomp |
| 64 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 65 mother | nmod:poss |
| 65 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 tell | obj |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm in a quote | gerund | Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Felicia | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | all hen | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not hear in a quote | can · perfect | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | entrust in a quote | past · passive | the zephyrs | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | carry in a quote | gerund | the task not said here | my son | the tower | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme to tower=Destination | |||
| 7 | wait in a quote | past | the Queen | for way; anxiously property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | leave in a quote | past | the Queen not said here | way | a garden of flowers | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in garden=Location | |||
| 9 | fly off in a quote | past | zephyrs = zephyr | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | zephyrs = zephyr not said here | your mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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