The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 87

When the youth entered the room where she was, the Golden Blackbird broke forth into a joyful song, and the Porcelain Maiden sang too, and jumped for joy.

Who acts: youth, Golden Blackbird, Porcelain Maiden · What happens: enter, break, sing, jump · To what, where: room, joyful song

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, Golden Blackbird, Porcelain Maiden), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 entered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	nsubj
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 broke	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	obj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 was	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 room	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 entered	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Blackbird	det
12	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Blackbird	amod
13	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 broke	nsubj
14	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	forth	forth	ADV	_	14 broke	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 song	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 song	det
18	joyful	joyful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 song	amod
19	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broke	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sang	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sang	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Maiden	det
23	Porcelain	Porcelain	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Maiden	compound
24	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 sang	nsubj
25	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 broke	conj
26	too	too	ADV	_	25 sang	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 jumped	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 jumped	cc
29	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 broke	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 joy	case
31	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 jumped	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the youth	the room		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
2	break	past	the Golden Blackbird		into a joyful song result; forth property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into song=Result
3	sing speech: express	past	the Porcelain Maiden			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	jump	past	the Golden Blackbird not said here		for joy	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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