The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 115
This strange voice so frightened the Queen that she took the letter and went away hastily with Turritella, and they held a council to try and devise some means of finding out what Fairy or Enchanter was favouring the Princess.
Who acts: strange voice, voice, letters, some, Fairy · What happens: frighten, take, go away, hold, try, devise · To what, where: Queen, letter, council, Princess · 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 (strange voice, voice, letters, some), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 voice | det |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 voice | amod |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frightened | nsubj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 frightened | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 took | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 letter | det |
| 12 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Turritella | case |
| 18 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 held | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 held | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 held | nsubj |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 council | det |
| 24 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 held | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 try | mark |
| 26 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 held | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 devise | cc |
| 28 | devise | devise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 try | conj |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 means | nsubj |
| 30 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 devise | ccomp |
| 31 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 32 finding | mark |
| 32 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 means | ccomp |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 finding | compound:prt |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 favouring | obj |
| 35 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 favouring | nsubj |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 Enchanter | cc |
| 37 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Fairy | conj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 favouring | aux |
| 39 | favouring | favour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 finding | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Princess | det |
| 41 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 favouring | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past | this strange voice | the Queen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus queen=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take | past | voice | the letter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go away | past | voice not said here | with Turritella; away, hastily property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with turritella=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | letters = letter | a council | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme | ||||
| 5 | try | to-infinitive | letters = letter not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | devise | infinitive | letters = letter not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | mean | present | some | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | find out | gerund | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | favour | past · progressive | Fairy or Enchanter | the Princess | tree rules |
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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