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The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 33

By great good fortune the raven had found a wind wizard’s son in the palace garden, who understood the speech of birds, and to him he had entrusted the message.

Who acts: great good fortune, palace garden · What happens: find, understand, entrust, speak · To what, where: raven, palace garden, speech, heart, birds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great good fortune, palace garden), 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

caseamodamodobldetnsubj:passauxdetcompoundnmod:posscaseobjcasedetcompoundoblpunctnsubjacl:relcldetobjcasenmodpunctcccasensubj:passnsubjauxconjdetobjpunctrootByADPgreatADJgoodADJfortuneNOUNtheDETravenNOUNhadAUXfoundVERBaDETwindNOUNwizardNOUN’sPARTsonNOUNinADPtheDETpalaceNOUNgardenNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONunderstoodVERBtheDETspeechNOUNofADPbirdsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoADPhimPRONhePRONhadAUXentrustedVERBtheDETmessageNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BybyADP_4 fortunecase
2greatgreatADJDegree=Pos4 fortuneamod
3goodgoodADJDegree=Pos4 fortuneamod
4fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing8 foundobl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 ravendet
6ravenravenNOUNNumber=Sing8 foundnsubj:pass
7hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 foundaux
8foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 wizarddet
10windwindNOUNNumber=Sing11 wizardcompound
11wizardwizardNOUNNumber=Sing13 sonnmod:poss
12’s'sPART_11 wizardcase
13sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing8 foundobj
14ininADP_17 gardencase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 gardendet
16palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing17 gardencompound
17gardengardenNOUNNumber=Sing8 foundobl
18,,PUNCT_20 understoodpunct
19whowhoPRONPronType=Rel20 understoodnsubj
20understoodunderstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 gardenacl:relcl
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 speechdet
22speechspeechNOUNNumber=Sing20 understoodobj
23ofofADP_24 birdscase
24birdsbirdNOUNNumber=Plur22 speechnmod
25,,PUNCT_31 entrustedpunct
26andandCCONJ_31 entrustedcc
27totoADP_28 himcase
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 entrustednsubj:pass
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 entrustednsubj
30hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 entrustedaux
31entrustedentrustVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 foundconj
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 messagedet
33messagemessageNOUNNumber=Sing31 entrustedobj
34..PUNCT_8 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findpast · perfect · passivegreat good fortunethe raventhe palace gardenvn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme son=Attribute
2understandpastthe palace gardenthe speech of birdsvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus
3entrustpast · perfect · passivehearttree rules
4speakbirdsnom speech «communication 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 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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