The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 93
The birds consented, and he said: “Take a thousand greetings from me to the wizard of Finland, and ask him how I may restore a maiden transformed into a flower to her own form.”
Who acts: birds, prince, Finland · What happens: consent, say, take, ask, restore, transform · To what, where: thousand greetings, wizard, prince, maiden, own form, flower · 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 (birds, prince, Finland), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Take | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Take | punct |
| 10 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thousand | det |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 greetings | nummod |
| 13 | greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Take | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Take | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 wizard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wizard | det |
| 18 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Take | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Finland | case |
| 20 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wizard | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ask | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ask | cc |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Take | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ask | obj |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 restore | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 restore | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 restore | aux |
| 28 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ask | xcomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 maiden | det |
| 30 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 restore | obj |
| 31 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 maiden | acl |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 flower | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 flower | det |
| 34 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 restore | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 form | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 form | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 form | amod |
| 38 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 restore | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | participle | the birds | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | thousand greetings | the wizard of Finland | from prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme from i=Initial_Location to wizard=Destination | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | restore not said to happen, in a quote | may | prince | a maiden | Finland's own form | a flower | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme to form=Recipient | ||
| 6 | transform in a quote | participle | a maiden not said here | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | form in a quote | Finland | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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