The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 98

The bird gradually descended until it perched on a tree close to the Prince and said: “The wizard of Finland greets thee and bids me say that thou mayest free the maiden thus: Go to the river and smear thyself all over with mud; then say: ‘From a man into a crab,’ and thou wilt become a crab.

Who acts: bird, wizard, thou · What happens: descend, perch, say, greet, bid, go · To what, where: eagle, tree, thee, bird, river, thyself · 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 (bird, wizard, thou), 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 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 descended	nsubj
3	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	4 descended	advmod
4	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 perched	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 perched	nsubj:pass
7	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 descended	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perched	obl
11	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Prince	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Prince	det
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 close	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 descended	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 greets	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 greets	punct
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wizard	det
20	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 greets	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Finland	case
22	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 wizard	nmod
23	greets	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
24	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 greets	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bids	cc
26	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 greets	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 bids	obj
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 bids	xcomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 free	mark
30	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 free	nsubj
31	mayest	may	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	32 free	aux
32	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 say	ccomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 maiden	det
34	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 free	obl:unmarked
35	thus	thus	ADV	_	28 say	advmod
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 Go	punct
37	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 say	parataxis
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 river	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 river	det
40	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Go	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 smear	cc
42	smear	smear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 Go	conj
43	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	42 smear	obj
44	all	all	ADV	_	45 over	advmod
45	over	over	ADV	_	42 smear	advmod
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 mud	case
47	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 smear	obl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 say	punct
49	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 say	advmod
50	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 descended	parataxis
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	55 man	punct
52	‘	'	PUNCT	_	55 man	punct
53	From	from	ADP	_	55 man	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 man	det
55	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 say	ccomp
56	into	into	ADP	_	58 crab	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 crab	det
58	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 man	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 man	punct
60	’	'	PUNCT	_	55 man	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 become	cc
62	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	64 become	nsubj
63	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	64 become	aux
64	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 say	conj
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 crab	det
66	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 become	xcomp
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 descended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	past	the bird				gradually property	tree rules
2	perch	participle · passive		eagle	a tree			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on tree=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the bird not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	greet speech: greet in a quote	present	the wizard of Finland	thee				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme
5	bid in a quote	present	the wizard of Finland not said here	the bird = bird				tree rules
6	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the wizard of Finland not said here				thus property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	go in a quote	infinitive			the river			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
8	smear in a quote	infinitive		thyself			with mud; over property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent thyself=Destination with mud=Theme
9	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	become in a quote	future	thou	a crab				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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