The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 9

Then he told the sorrowful lady long stories about the good qualities of his departed Queen, and she in her turn recounted all the virtues of her departed husband; and this passed the time so agreeably that the King quite forgot to thump his head against the feather-beds, and the lady did not need to wipe the tears from her great blue eyes as often as before.

Who acts: King, lady, this · What happens: tell, depart, recount, pass, forget, not thump · To what, where: sorrowful lady, virtues, turn, head, tears, great blue eyes · 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, lady, this), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stories	amod
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lady	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 qualities	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 qualities	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 qualities	amod
12	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stories	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 Queen	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Queen	nmod:poss
15	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 Queen	amod
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 qualities	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 recounted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 recounted	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 recounted	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 turn	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 turn	nmod:poss
22	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 recounted	obl
23	recounted	recount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 virtues	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 virtues	det
26	virtues	virtue	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 recounted	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 husband	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 husband	nmod:poss
29	departed	departed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 husband	amod
30	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 virtues	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 passed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 passed	cc
33	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 passed	nsubj
34	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 time	det
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 passed	obj
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 agreeably	advmod
38	agreeably	agreeably	ADV	_	34 passed	advmod
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 forgot	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 King	det
41	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 forgot	nsubj
42	quite	quite	ADV	_	43 forgot	advmod
43	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 passed	advcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 thump	mark
45	thump	thump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 forgot	xcomp
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 head	nmod:poss
47	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 thump	obj
48	against	against	ADP	_	52 beds	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 beds	det
50	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 beds	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 feather	punct
52	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 thump	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 need	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 need	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 lady	det
56	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 need	nsubj
57	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 need	aux
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 need	advmod
59	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 passed	advcl
60	to	to	PART	_	61 wipe	mark
61	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 need	xcomp
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 tears	det
63	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 wipe	obj
64	from	from	ADP	_	68 eyes	case
65	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 eyes	nmod:poss
66	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 eyes	amod
67	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 eyes	amod
68	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 wipe	obl
69	as	as	ADV	_	70 often	advmod
70	often	often	ADV	_	61 wipe	advmod
71	as	as	ADP	_	72 before	case
72	before	before	ADV	_	70 often	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	King		the sorrowful lady and long stories about the good qualities of King's departed Queen		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient
2	depart	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	recount speech: other	past	lady	all virtues of lady's departed husband		lady's turn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent virtue=Topic
4	pass	past	this				time	agreeably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	forget	past	the King						tree rules
6	not thump	to-infinitive	the King not said here	King's head				against the feather beds	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument against bed=Patient
7	not need	past · do-support	the lady						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	wipe not said to happen	to-infinitive	the lady not said here	the tears		lady's great blue eyes		often property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tear=Theme from eye=Trajectory

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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