The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 78

The night was so dark that the King had not a chance of finding out the trick that was being played upon him, so he approached the window with the greatest delight, and said everything that he had been longing to say to Fiordelisa to persuade her of his love for her.

Who acts: night, King, chance · What happens: be, have, find out, play, approach, say · To what, where: chance, trick, window, everything, 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 (night, King, chance), 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 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	advcl
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 chance	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chance	det
12	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 finding	mark
14	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 chance	acl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 finding	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trick	det
17	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 finding	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 played	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 played	aux:pass
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 played	aux:pass
21	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 trick	acl:relcl
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 played	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 approached	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 approached	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 approached	nsubj
27	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 window	det
29	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 approached	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 delight	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 delight	det
32	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 delight	amod
33	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 approached	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 said	cc
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	conj
37	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	36 said	obj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 longing	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 longing	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 longing	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 longing	aux
42	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 said	advcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 say	mark
44	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 longing	xcomp
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 Fiordelisa	case
46	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 say	obl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 persuade	mark
48	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 say	advcl
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 persuade	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 love	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 love	nmod:poss
52	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 persuade	obl
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 her	case
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 persuade	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the night			dark property	tree rules
2	have	past	the King	a chance			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
3	find out	gerund	a chance not said here	the trick			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic
4	play	past · passive		the trick		upon King	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	approach	past	King	the window		with the greatest delight	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent window=Theme with delight=Instrument
6	say speech: assert	past	the night not said here	everything			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
7	long	past · perfect · progressive	King				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here		Fiordelisa		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fiordelisa=Recipient
9	persuade	to-infinitive	King not said here	Fiordelisa		of King's love; for Fiordelisa	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
10	love		King				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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