The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 65
As soon as he possibly could, King Charming went to see the King and Queen, and as he entered the hall he looked for Fiordelisa, and every time anyone came in he started round to see who it was, and was altogether so uneasy and dissatisfied that the Queen saw it plainly.
Who acts: King, anyone, hall, Queen · What happens: go, see, enter, look, come, start · To what, where: King, hall · 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 (King, anyone, hall, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 went | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 could | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 could | nsubj |
| 5 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 6 could | advmod |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 9 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | flat |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Queen | cc |
| 16 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 looked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 looked | cc |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 entered | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 entered | nsubj |
| 21 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 looked | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hall | det |
| 23 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 entered | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 looked | nsubj |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 Fiordelisa | case |
| 27 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 looked | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 came | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 came | cc |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 time | det |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 anyone | compound |
| 32 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 came | nsubj |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | parataxis |
| 34 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 36 started | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 started | nsubj |
| 36 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 came | advcl |
| 37 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 started | xcomp |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 see | mark |
| 39 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 round | advcl |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 see | ccomp |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 who | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 who | cop |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 uneasy | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 uneasy | cc |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 uneasy | cop |
| 46 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 48 uneasy | advmod |
| 47 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 uneasy | advmod |
| 48 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 came | conj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 dissatisfied | cc |
| 50 | dissatisfied | dissatisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 uneasy | conj |
| 51 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 54 saw | mark |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Queen | det |
| 53 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 saw | nsubj |
| 54 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 dissatisfied | advcl |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 saw | obj |
| 56 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 54 saw | advmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | King | soon property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | King not said here | the King and Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | King | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | ||||
| 4 | look | past | King | for Fiordelisa | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fiordelisa=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | anyone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | start | past | King | round property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | is a | past | hall | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | is | past | anyone not said here | altogether, uneasy property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | be | anyone not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 11 | see | past | the Queen | hall | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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