The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 20

At last the Fairy Mazilla said furiously (for she was quite tired out by his obstinacy), ‘Choose whether you will marry my goddaughter, or do penance seven years for breaking your word to her.’

Who acts: Fairy Mazilla, Mazilla, you, your · What happens: say, be, choose, marry, do, break · To what, where: last, goddaughter, penance, word, Mazilla · 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 (Fairy Mazilla, Mazilla, you, your), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mazilla	det
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mazilla	compound
5	Mazilla	Mazilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 tired	case
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tired	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tired	cop
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 tired	advmod
13	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 tired	compound:prt
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 obstinacy	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 obstinacy	nmod:poss
17	obstinacy	obstinacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tired	obl
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 tired	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Choose	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Choose	punct
21	Choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
22	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	25 marry	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 marry	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 marry	aux
25	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Choose	xcomp
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 goddaughter	nmod:poss
27	goddaughter	goddaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 marry	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 do	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 do	cc
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 marry	conj
31	penance	penance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 do	obj
32	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 do	obl:unmarked
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 breaking	mark
35	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 do	advcl
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 word	nmod:poss
37	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 breaking	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 breaking	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 Choose	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 Choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Fairy Mazilla			last		furiously property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	past	Mazilla					by Turritella's obstinacy; tired property	tree rules
3	choose	infinitive							tree rules
4	marry	future	you	my goddaughter					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goddaughter=Patient
5	do	infinitive	you not said here	penance			year		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penance=Eventuality
6	break	gerund	you not said here	your word	Mazilla				vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent word=Patient to she=Result
7	word		your						nom word «communication transitive»: 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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