The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 68
‘Sire,’ answered the Queen haughtily, ‘her father has ordered that she shall not leave her own apartments until my daughter is married.’
Who acts: Sire, father, Queen · What happens: answer, order, not leave, marry · To what, where: Queen, own apartments, daughter
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 (Sire, father, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | haughtily | haughtily | ADV | _ | 5 answered | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ordered | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 14 ordered | mark |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ordered | aux |
| 14 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 leave | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 leave | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 leave | advmod |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ordered | xcomp |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 apartments | amod |
| 22 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leave | obj |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 married | mark |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 married | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 married | aux:pass |
| 27 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 leave | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Sire | the Queen | haughtily property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | order | present · perfect | Queen's father | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not leave not said to happen | shall | Queen | Queen's own apartments | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apartment=Theme | ||||
| 4 | marry | present · passive | my daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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