The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 72
He felt certain that Turritella was to blame for it, so casting a furious glance at her he abruptly took leave of the Queen, and returned to his own apartments.
Who acts: King, Turritella · What happens: feel, be, cast, take, return · To what, where: furious glance, leave
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, Turritella), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 blame | mark |
| 5 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 blame | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blame | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 blame | mark |
| 8 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 certain | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 blame | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 casting | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 casting | advmod |
| 13 | casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 felt | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 glance | det |
| 15 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 glance | amod |
| 16 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 casting | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 casting | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 20 | abruptly | abruptly | ADV | _ | 21 took | advmod |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 casting | parataxis |
| 22 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Queen | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Queen | det |
| 25 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 leave | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 returned | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 returned | cc |
| 28 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 apartments | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 31 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 apartments | amod |
| 32 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 returned | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | King | certain property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Turritella | for indignation; blame property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cast | gerund | King not said here | a furious glance | at Turritella | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme at she=Destination | |||
| 4 | take | past | King | leave of the Queen | abruptly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 5 | return | past | King not said here | to King's own apartments result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to apartment=Result |
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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