The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 86

And Turritella, with her head muffled in her mantle, answered that the Fairy Mazilla was her godmother, and that she would like it to be at her castle.

Who acts: Turritella, Fairy Mazilla · What happens: muffle, answer, be, like · To what, where: mantle, godmother, Mazilla, castle · 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, Fairy Mazilla), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 muffled	cc
2	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 muffled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Turritella	appos
7	muffled	muffle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mantle	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mantle	nmod:poss
10	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 muffled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 muffled	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 godmother	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Mazilla	det
15	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mazilla	compound
16	Mazilla	Mazilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 godmother	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 godmother	cop
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 godmother	nmod:poss
19	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 like	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 like	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 like	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 like	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 like	aux
25	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 muffled	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 like	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	31 castle	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 castle	cop
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 castle	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 castle	nmod:poss
31	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 like	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 muffled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	muffle	past	Turritella		Turritella's mantle	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the Fairy Mazilla	Turritella's godmother		tree rules
4	like	would	Turritella	Mazilla		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	Turritella not said here		Turritella's castle	tree rules

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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