The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 81
The King could not help thinking that she did not say exactly what he would have expected from his darling Fiordelisa, but he persuaded himself that the fear of being surprised by the Queen was making her awkward and unnatural.
Who acts: King, chance, Queen, fear · What happens: not help, think, not say, expect, persuade, surprise · To what, where: King, darling Fiordelisa, fear, chance · 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 (King, chance, Queen, fear), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 help | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 help | advmod |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 help | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 say | advmod |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thinking | ccomp |
| 12 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 13 what | advmod |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 say | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 expected | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 expected | aux |
| 17 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Fiordelisa | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Fiordelisa | nmod:poss |
| 20 | darling | darling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Fiordelisa | amod |
| 21 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 expected | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 persuaded | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 persuaded | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 persuaded | nsubj |
| 25 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | parataxis |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 persuaded | obj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 making | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fear | det |
| 29 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 making | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 32 surprised | mark |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 surprised | aux:pass |
| 32 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 fear | acl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 Queen | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Queen | det |
| 35 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 surprised | obl |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 making | aux |
| 37 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 persuaded | advcl |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 making | obj |
| 39 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 making | xcomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 unnatural | cc |
| 41 | unnatural | unnatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 awkward | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | could | the King | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other not said to happen | gerund | the King not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | chance | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | expect | would · perfect · passive | King | King's darling Fiordelisa | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | persuade | past | King | King | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 6 | surprise | gerund · passive | the Queen | the fear not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | make | past · progressive | the fear | chance | awkward property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset her=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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