The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 74

‘Nothing could be easier,’ said the young squire; and he very soon made friends with one of the ladies, who told him that in the evening Fiordelisa would be at a little window which looked into the garden, where he could come and talk to her.

Who acts: Nothing, squire, friends, Fiordelisa, little window · What happens: be, say, make, tell, look, come · To what, where: young squire, friends, squire, evening, little window, Fiordelisa · 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 (Nothing, squire, friends, Fiordelisa), 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 Nothing	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 said	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 easier	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 easier	cop
5	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Nothing	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 squire	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 squire	amod
11	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 soon	advmod
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 made	advmod
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
18	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	xcomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 one	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 friends	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 ladies	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ladies	det
23	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 friends	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 evening	mark
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 evening	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 evening	det
31	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	ccomp
32	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 window	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 window	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 window	cop
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 window	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 window	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 window	amod
38	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 evening	acl:relcl
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 looked	nsubj
40	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 window	acl:relcl
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 garden	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 garden	det
43	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 looked	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 come	punct
45	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	48 come	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 come	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 come	aux
48	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 looked	conj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 talk	cc
50	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 come	conj
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 her	case
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 talk	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	could					easy property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Nothing	the young squire				tree rules
3	make	participle	squire	friends with one of the ladies			soon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	friends with one of the ladies		squire			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is	would	Fiordelisa	the evening not said here		a little window		tree rules
6	look	past	a little window				into the garden	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into garden=Theme
7	come	could	squire					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	talk	infinitive	squire not said here		Fiordelisa			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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