The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 97
But it was worse than anything he had imagined when the Fairy Mazilla entered, leading Turritella by the hand, and said to him--
Who acts: haste, dark, Fairy Mazilla · What happens: be, imagine, enter, lead, say · To what, where: Turritella, dark · 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 (haste, dark, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 worse | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 worse | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worse | cop |
| 4 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 anything | case |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 worse | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 imagined | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 imagined | aux |
| 9 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 anything | acl:relcl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 entered | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mazilla | det |
| 12 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mazilla | compound |
| 13 | Mazilla | Mazilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | nsubj |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 imagined | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leading | punct |
| 16 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 entered | advcl |
| 17 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 leading | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leading | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worse | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | obl |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | haste | than anything; bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | imagine | past · perfect | dark | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | the Fairy Mazilla | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lead | gerund | the Fairy Mazilla not said here | Turritella | by the hand | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent turritella=Theme by hand=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | haste not said here | dark | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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