The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 117
Poor Fiordelisa, who guessed she was sent as a spy, was in despair, and cried bitterly that she dared not see her dear Blue Bird for fear that some evil might happen to him if he were discovered.
Who acts: Poor Fiordelisa, Fiordelisa, evil · What happens: guess, send, be, cry, not see, happen · To what, where: Fiordelisa, despair, dear Blue Bird, fear, Enchanter, evil · 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 (Poor Fiordelisa, Fiordelisa, evil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:185): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Fiordelisa | amod |
| 2 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 despair | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 guessed | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 guessed | nsubj |
| 5 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Fiordelisa | acl:relcl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | aux:pass |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 guessed | ccomp |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 spy | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 spy | det |
| 11 | spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 guessed | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 despair | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 despair | case |
| 15 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cried | cc |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 despair | conj |
| 19 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 18 cried | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 22 | dared | dare | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 see | advmod |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 cried | ccomp |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Bird | nmod:poss |
| 26 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Bird | amod |
| 27 | Blue | Blue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Bird | compound |
| 28 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 fear | case |
| 30 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 happen | mark |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 evil | det |
| 33 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 happen | nsubj |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 happen | aux |
| 35 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 fear | acl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 happen | obl |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 discovered | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 discovered | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 discovered | aux:pass |
| 41 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 happen | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | Poor Fiordelisa | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send | past · passive | Fiordelisa | as a spy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Poor Fiordelisa | despair | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | Poor Fiordelisa not said here | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not see | past | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa's dear Blue Bird | for fear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | happen | might | some evil | fear not said here | Enchanter | tree rules | |||
| 7 | discover a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | evil | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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