The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 66
But she would not take any notice, and talked of nothing but the entertainments she was planning.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: not take, talk, plan · To what, where: notice
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 take | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 notice | det |
| 7 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 talked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 talked | cc |
| 10 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 nothing | case |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 talked | obl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 entertainments | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 entertainments | det |
| 15 | entertainments | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 nothing | conj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 planning | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 planning | aux |
| 18 | planning | plan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 nothing | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | would | Queen | any notice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | talk | past | Queen not said here | of nothing | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | plan | past · progressive | Queen | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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