The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 79
Turritella answered as she had been taught, that she was very unhappy, and that there was no chance of her being better treated by the Queen until her daughter was married.
Who acts: Turritella, chance, Queen · What happens: answer, teach, be, treat, marry · To what, where: Turritella, chance, daughter · 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 (Turritella, chance, Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:92): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 taught | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taught | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taught | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 taught | aux:pass |
| 7 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 answered | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unhappy | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 unhappy | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 unhappy | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 unhappy | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 unhappy | advmod |
| 13 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 was | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 was | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 unhappy | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 chance | det |
| 20 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 treated | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 treated | aux:pass |
| 24 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 treated | advmod |
| 25 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 chance | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Queen | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Queen | det |
| 28 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 treated | obl:agent |
| 29 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 33 married | mark |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 married | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 married | aux:pass |
| 33 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 treated | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Turritella | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Turritella | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Turritella | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | past | no chance | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | treat | gerund · passive | the Queen | chance | well property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 6 | marry | past · passive | chance's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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