The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 52
As to the poor Princess Fiordelisa, she cried all night without stopping.
Who acts: Fiordelisa · What happens: cry, stop
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 (Fiordelisa), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 6 Fiordelisa | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fiordelisa | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Fiordelisa | amod |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fiordelisa | compound |
| 6 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fiordelisa | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 stopping | mark |
| 13 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Fiordelisa | night | as the poor Princess Fiordelisa | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stop | gerund | Fiordelisa 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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