The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 110

So she and Turritella began to search every corner of the little room, and when they came to the straw mattress out fell such a quantity of pearls, diamonds, rubies, opals, emeralds, and sapphires, that they were amazed, and could not tell what to think.

Who acts: Queen, intrigues · What happens: begin, search, come out, fall, not tell, think · To what, where: corner, quantity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, intrigues), 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	_	5 began	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Turritella	cc
4	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 she	conj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 search	mark
7	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 corner	det
9	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 search	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 room	amod
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 corner	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 came	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fell	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 mattress	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mattress	det
21	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mattress	compound
22	mattress	mattress	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
23	out	out	ADP	_	18 came	compound:prt
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	parataxis
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 quantity	det:predet
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 quantity	det
27	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 pearls	case
29	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 quantity	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 diamonds	punct
31	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pearls	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rubies	punct
33	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pearls	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 opals	punct
35	opals	opal	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pearls	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 emeralds	punct
37	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 opals	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sapphires	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 sapphires	cc
40	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fell	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 amazed	punct
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 amazed	mark
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 amazed	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 amazed	aux:pass
45	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fell	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 tell	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 tell	cc
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 tell	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 tell	advmod
50	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	45 amazed	conj
51	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 think	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 think	mark
53	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 tell	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Queen			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	search	to-infinitive	Queen not said here	every corner of the little room		vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Location
3	come out	past	intrigues = intrigue		to the straw mattress	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	fall	past		such quantity of pearls and diamonds and rubies and opals and emeralds	sapphires obl	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient quantity=Result
5	not tell speech: assert	could				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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