The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 51
So when the Queen sent for the courtiers and questioned them about all they had found out, their report confirmed her worst fears.
Who acts: Queen, courtiers, report · What happens: send, question, find out, confirm, report, fear · To what, where: courtiers, worst fears
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, courtiers, report), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 sent | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 courtiers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 courtiers | det |
| 8 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 questioned | cc |
| 10 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 questioned | obj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 questioned | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 questioned | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 found | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 confirmed | punct |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 report | nmod:poss |
| 20 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 confirmed | nsubj |
| 21 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fears | nmod:poss |
| 23 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 fears | amod |
| 24 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 confirmed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Queen | for the courtiers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | question speech: other | past | the Queen not said here | courtiers = courtier | about all | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about all=Topic | |||
| 3 | find out | past · perfect | courtiers = courtier | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | confirm | past | courtiers's report | Queen's worst fears | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fear=Topic | ||||
| 5 | report | courtiers = courtier | nom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | fear | Queen | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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