The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 87
So the King told the Frogs, who had the map of the whole world in their heads, and very soon he and Turritella were set down at the castle of the Fairy Mazilla.
Who acts: King, Frogs · What happens: tell, have, set down · To what, where: Frogs, map, heads, King, 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 (King, Frogs), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Frogs | det |
| 6 | Frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Frogs | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 map | det |
| 11 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 world | amod |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 map | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 heads | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heads | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 set | cc |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 soon | advmod |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 set | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 set | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Turritella | cc |
| 25 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 he | conj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 set | aux:pass |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 told | ccomp |
| 28 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 set | compound:prt |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 castle | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 castle | det |
| 31 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Mazilla | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Mazilla | det |
| 34 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Mazilla | compound |
| 35 | Mazilla | Mazilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 castle | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the King | the Frogs | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent frog=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Frogs | the map of the whole world | frogs's heads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Patient | |||
| 3 | set down | past · passive | King | the castle of the Fairy Mazilla | soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at castle=Destination |
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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