The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 12
Her name was Fiordelisa, and she was the prettiest and most charming Princess imaginable, always gay and merry.
Who acts: name, lady, most · What happens: be, charm, name · To what, where: Fiordelisa, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, lady, most), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Fiordelisa | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Fiordelisa | cop |
| 4 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 prettiest | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 prettiest | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 prettiest | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 prettiest | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prettiest | det |
| 10 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 Fiordelisa | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 charming | cc |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 charming | nsubj |
| 13 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 prettiest | conj |
| 14 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 charming | obj |
| 15 | imaginable | imaginable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 charming | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gay | punct |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 gay | advmod |
| 18 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 imaginable | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 merry | cc |
| 20 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 imaginable | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fiordelisa | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lady's name | Fiordelisa | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | lady | Fiordelisa not said here | pretty property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | charm | gerund | most | Princess | imaginable property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | name | lady | nom name «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 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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