The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 112

Fortunately for Fiordelisa this was exactly where the Blue Bird had perched himself, to keep an eye upon her proceedings, and try to avert danger from his beloved Princess, and now he cried:

Who acts: this, Blue Bird, King, Bird · What happens: be, perch, keep, try, avert, cry · To what, where: King, eye, proceedings, danger

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 (this, Blue Bird, King, Bird), 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	Fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	36 cried	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 Fiordelisa	case
3	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fortunately	obl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 where	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 where	cop
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 where	advmod
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	1 Fortunately	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Bird	det
9	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bird	amod
10	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 perched	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 perched	aux
12	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 where	advcl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 perched	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 keep	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 keep	mark
16	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 perched	parataxis
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 eye	det
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	obj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 proceedings	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 proceedings	nmod:poss
21	proceedings	proceedings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	16 keep	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 try	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 try	cc
24	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 keep	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 avert	mark
26	avert	avert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 try	xcomp
27	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 avert	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 Princess	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 Princess	nmod:poss
30	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Princess	amod
31	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 avert	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cried	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 cried	cc
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 cried	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 cried	nsubj
36	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this				exactly, where property	tree rules
2	perch	past · perfect	the Blue Bird	King				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme
3	keep	to-infinitive		a eye	Bird's proceedings			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon proceedings=Location
4	try	infinitive						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	avert not said to happen	to-infinitive		danger			from King's beloved Princess	tree rules
6	cry speech: express	past	King			now	fortunately property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	proceed		Bird					nom proceedings «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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