The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 26
The Queen, however, only thought that he was bashful, and took pains to keep Turritella in full view.
Who acts: Queen, King · What happens: think, be, take, keep · To what, where: pains, Turritella, full view · 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 (Queen, 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 | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 thought | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 thought | advmod |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 bashful | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bashful | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bashful | cop |
| 11 | bashful | bashful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | conj |
| 15 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 took | advcl |
| 18 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 view | case |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 view | amod |
| 21 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Queen | however property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | King | bashful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the Queen not said here | pains | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | Turritella | full view | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent turritella=Theme in view=Location |
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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