The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 77
She at once determined that her own daughter should be at the little window; and she taught her so well all she was to say and do, that even the stupid Turritella could make no mistake.
Who acts: Fiordelisa, own daughter, stupid Turritella · What happens: determine, be, teach, do, make · To what, where: little window, daughter, mistake
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 (Fiordelisa, own daughter, stupid 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 determined | mark |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 determined | advmod |
| 4 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 window | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 daughter | amod |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 window | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 window | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 window | cop |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 window | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 window | amod |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 determined | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 taught | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 taught | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 taught | nsubj |
| 18 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 determined | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 taught | iobj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 well | advmod |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 all | advmod |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 say | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 say | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 say | cop |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 say | mark |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 taught | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 do | cc |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 say | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 make | punct |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 make | mark |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 Turritella | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Turritella | det |
| 33 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Turritella | amod |
| 34 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 make | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 make | aux |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 say | conj |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 mistake | det |
| 38 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | Fiordelisa | once property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | should | Fiordelisa's own daughter | the little window | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | past | Fiordelisa | daughter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Fiordelisa | all, say property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | infinitive | Fiordelisa not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | make | could | the stupid Turritella | no mistake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product |
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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