The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 39

The Queen was in despair, and so was Turritella, when they saw how much the King preferred Fiordelisa.

Who acts: Queen, speeches, King · What happens: be, see, prefer · To what, where: despair, Turritella, much · 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, speeches, 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	5 despair	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 despair	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 despair	case
5	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Turritella	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Turritella	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 Turritella	advmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Turritella	cop
10	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 despair	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 despair	conj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 preferred	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 preferred	nsubj
19	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saw	ccomp
20	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 preferred	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 despair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is	past	the Queen		despair	tree rules
2	is a	past		Turritella		tree rules
3	see	past	speeches = speech			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	prefer	past	the King	much		tree rules

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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