The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 38
The King quite understood that she was not pleased, but that did not matter to him, so he admired Fiordelisa to his heart’s content, and talked to her for three hours without stopping.
Who acts: King, Pray, that · What happens: understand, not be, not matter, admire, talk, stop · To what, where: King, Fiordelisa, Pray
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, Pray, that), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 understood | advmod |
| 4 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 pleased | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pleased | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pleased | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 pleased | advmod |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 understood | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 matter | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 matter | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 matter | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 matter | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 matter | advmod |
| 15 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 understood | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 matter | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 admired | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 admired | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 admired | nsubj |
| 21 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 understood | conj |
| 22 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 admired | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 content | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 content | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 heart | case |
| 27 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 admired | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 talked | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 talked | cc |
| 30 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 understood | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 talked | obl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 hours | case |
| 34 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 hours | nummod |
| 35 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 talked | obl |
| 36 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 37 stopping | mark |
| 37 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 talked | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | Pray | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not matter | past · do-support | that | King | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | admire | past | King | Fiordelisa | to King's heart's content | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fiordelisa=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | talk | past | the King not said here | Pray | hour | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | stop | gerund | the King not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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