The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 5

All his subjects came to see him, and said whatever they thought would comfort him: some were grave, even gloomy with him; and some agreeable, even gay; but not one could make the least impression upon him.

Who acts: subjects, whatever, some, one · What happens: come, see, say, think, comfort, be · To what, where: King, least impression · 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 (subjects, whatever, some, one), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 subjects	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 subjects	nmod:poss
3	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 comfort	nsubj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 whatever	acl:relcl
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 comfort	aux
15	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 comfort	obj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 grave	punct
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 grave	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grave	cop
20	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gloomy	punct
22	even	even	ADV	_	23 gloomy	advmod
23	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grave	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gloomy	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 gay	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gay	cc
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	32 gay	nsubj
29	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gay	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gay	punct
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 gay	advmod
32	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	parataxis
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 make	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 make	cc
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 make	advmod
36	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 make	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 make	aux
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 impression	det
40	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 impression	amod
41	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 make	obj
42	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 make	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	King's subjects			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	King's subjects not said here	King		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	think speech: other	past	subjects = subject			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	comfort	would	whatever	King		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	is	past	some		grave property	tree rules
7	be		some not said here		with King	tree rules
8	not make	could	one	the least impression	upon King	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product

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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