The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 42
She easily guessed that she was to be kept out of sight for fear the King should fall in love with her; but then, how disappointing that was, for she already liked him very much, and would have been quite willing to be chosen for his bride!
Who acts: visit, King, that · What happens: guess, keep out, fall, disappoint, be, choose · To what, where: visit, sight, love · 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 (visit, King, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 guessed | nsubj |
| 2 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 3 guessed | advmod |
| 3 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 kept | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kept | aux:pass |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 kept | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 kept | aux:pass |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 guessed | ccomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sight | case |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kept | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 fear | case |
| 14 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fall | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fall | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fall | aux |
| 18 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 kept | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 love | case |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fall | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fall | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 disappointing | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 disappointing | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 disappointing | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 disappointing | punct |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 disappointing | advmod |
| 28 | disappointing | disappoint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 guessed | advcl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 liked | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 liked | cop |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 liked | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 liked | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 liked | nsubj |
| 34 | already | already | ADV | _ | 35 liked | advmod |
| 35 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 disappointing | ccomp |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 liked | obj |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 much | advmod |
| 38 | much | much | ADV | _ | 35 liked | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 willing | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 willing | cc |
| 41 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 willing | aux |
| 42 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 willing | aux |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 willing | cop |
| 44 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 45 willing | advmod |
| 45 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guessed | conj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 chosen | mark |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 chosen | aux:pass |
| 48 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 willing | xcomp |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 bride | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 bride | nmod:poss |
| 51 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 chosen | obl |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | visit | easily property | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep out | past · passive | visit | sight | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme sight=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | fall | should | the King | love | for fear; with visit | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 4 | disappoint | gerund | visit not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | that | like property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | would · perfect | visit not said here | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | choose | to-infinitive · passive | visit not said here | for King's bride | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for bride=Beneficiary |
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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