The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 34
‘Wherever such a marvellously beautiful Princess appears I can look at nothing else.’
Who acts: beautiful Princess, I · What happens: appear, look
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 (beautiful Princess, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 appears | punct |
| 2 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 appears | advmod |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 Princess | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 5 | marvellously | marvellously | ADV | _ | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Princess | amod |
| 7 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appears | nsubj |
| 8 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 look | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | aux |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 appears | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 nothing | case |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 nothing | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 appears | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | such beautiful Princess | wherever property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | look | can | I | at nothing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at nothing=Theme |
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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