The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 96
Why doesn’t my lovely Fiordelisa make haste and come hack to me?’
Who acts: lovely Fiordelisa · What happens: not make, come · To what, where: haste
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 (lovely Fiordelisa), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 make | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Fiordelisa | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Fiordelisa | amod |
| 6 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | conj |
| 11 | hack | hack | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 come | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hack | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present · do-support | my lovely Fiordelisa | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | my lovely Fiordelisa not said here | hack property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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