The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 64
And he sent the splendid gifts back to the Queen and Turritella, who were furiously angry at the contempt with which they were treated.
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: send, be, treat · To what, where: splendid gifts, Queen, contempt, gifts
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 (King, Queen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sent | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gifts | det |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gifts | amod |
| 6 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Queen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Turritella | cc |
| 12 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Queen | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 angry | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 angry | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 angry | cop |
| 16 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 17 angry | advmod |
| 17 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Queen | parataxis |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 contempt | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 contempt | det |
| 20 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 angry | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 treated | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 treated | aux:pass |
| 25 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 contempt | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | King | the splendid gifts | the Queen and Turritella | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to queen=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the Queen and Turritella | the contempt | angry, furiously property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | treat | past · passive | gifts = gift | with the contempt | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with which=Theme |
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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