The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 25
The Queen received her guest with great ceremony, and presented him to her daughter, who was gorgeously attired, but so much splendour only made her ugliness more noticeable, and the King, after one glance at her, looked the other way.
Who acts: Queen, much splendour, King · What happens: receive, present, attire, make, look · To what, where: guest, daughter, ugliness, other way
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 (Queen, much splendour, King), 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 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 guest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 ceremony | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ceremony | amod |
| 8 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 presented | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 presented | cc |
| 11 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 presented | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 daughter | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 presented | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 attired | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 attired | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 attired | aux:pass |
| 19 | gorgeously | gorgeously | ADV | _ | 20 attired | advmod |
| 20 | attired | attire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 splendour | amod |
| 25 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | nsubj |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 made | advmod |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 presented | conj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 ugliness | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ugliness | ugliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obj |
| 30 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 noticeable | advmod |
| 31 | noticeable | noticeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 made | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 looked | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 looked | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 King | det |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 looked | nsubj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 glance | punct |
| 37 | after | after | ADP | _ | 39 glance | case |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 glance | nummod |
| 39 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 King | appos |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 glance | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 King | punct |
| 43 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 way | det |
| 45 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 way | amod |
| 46 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the Queen | Queen's guest | with great ceremony | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme | |||
| 2 | present | past | guest | Queen's daughter | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to daughter=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | attire | past · passive | Queen's daughter | gorgeously property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past | much splendour | Queen's ugliness | noticeable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ugliness=Product | |||
| 5 | look | past | the King | the other way | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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