The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 30
He rose, and bowing low before her, said--
Who acts: King · What happens: rise, bow, say · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 5 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 6 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 bowing | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bowing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowing | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | King | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bow | gerund | before Fiordelisa | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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