The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 53

‘It would have been quite bad enough to be shut up in this gloomy tower before I had ever seen King Charming,’ she said; ‘but now when he is here, and they are all enjoying themselves with him, it is too unkind.’

Who acts: fear, I, Fiordelisa, King, reports · What happens: be, shut up, see, say, enjoy · To what, where: gloomy tower, Charming, reports · 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 (fear, I, Fiordelisa, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 bad	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bad	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bad	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 bad	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 bad	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 bad	advmod
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 bad	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	11 shut	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 shut	aux:pass
11	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bad	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 shut	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 tower	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 tower	det
15	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tower	amod
16	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shut	obl
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 seen	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 seen	advmod
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 said	advcl
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Charming	nmod:desc
23	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 seen	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shut	parataxis
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 here	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 here	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 here	cc
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 here	advmod
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 here	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 here	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 here	cop
35	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 bad	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 enjoying	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 enjoying	cc
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 enjoying	nsubj
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 enjoying	aux
40	all	all	ADV	_	41 enjoying	advmod
41	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 here	conj
42	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 enjoying	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 enjoying	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 unkind	punct
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 unkind	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 unkind	cop
48	too	too	ADV	_	49 unkind	advmod
49	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bad	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bad	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	fear				bad, enough property	tree rules
2	shut up	to-infinitive · passive	fear not said here		this gloomy tower			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»
3	see	past · perfect	I	Charming King		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer charming=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	Fiordelisa					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	King			now	here property	tree rules
6	enjoy	present · progressive	reports = report	reports = report			with King; all property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus
7	is	present	fear				unkind property	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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