The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 76

The squire was delighted, and promised all she asked; but the moment he had run off to announce his success to the King, the false waiting-woman went and told the Queen all that had passed.

Who acts: squire, Fiordelisa, false waiting woman, that · What happens: be, promise, ask, run off, announce, go · To what, where: all, moment, success, King, Queen · 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 (squire, Fiordelisa, false waiting woman, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 squire	det
2	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 promised	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 promised	cc
7	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	advcl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 promised	obj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 all	acl:relcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	obl:unmarked
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 run	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 run	aux
17	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 moment	acl:relcl
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 run	compound:prt
19	to	to	PART	_	20 announce	mark
20	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 run	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 success	nmod:poss
22	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 announce	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 King	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 announce	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 woman	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 woman	det
28	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 woman	amod
29	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 woman	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 waiting	punct
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 told	cc
34	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 went	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Queen	det
36	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 told	iobj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 passed	det:predet
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 passed	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 passed	aux
40	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 told	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the squire				delighted property	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past	the squire not said here	all				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent all=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	Fiordelisa					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	run off	past · perfect	squire	the moment not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moment=Trajectory
5	announce speech: other	to-infinitive	squire not said here	squire's success	the King			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent success=Theme to king=Recipient
6	go	past	the false waiting woman			moment		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	past	the false waiting woman not said here		the Queen			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic
8	pass	past · perfect	that					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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