The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 22
However, as she easily guessed who had played her such a trick, she made no complaint, but sent to the merchants for some rich stuffs.
Who acts: Fiordelisa · What happens: guess, play, make, send · To what, where: Fiordelisa, complaint, merchants · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fiordelisa), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 16 made | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 guessed | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 guessed | nsubj |
| 5 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 6 guessed | advmod |
| 6 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | advcl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 played | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 played | aux |
| 9 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 guessed | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 played | obj |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 trick | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 trick | det |
| 13 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 played | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 guessed | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 complaint | det |
| 18 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 sent | cc |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 made | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 merchants | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 merchants | det |
| 24 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | obl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 stuffs | case |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 stuffs | det |
| 27 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stuffs | amod |
| 28 | stuffs | stuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | Fiordelisa | easily property | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | play | past · perfect | Fiordelisa | such trick obl:unmarked | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Fiordelisa | no complaint | however property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent complaint=Product | |||
| 4 | send | participle | Fiordelisa not said here | the merchants | for some rich stuffs | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to merchant=Destination |
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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