The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 26

‘Fly from that window, ungrateful King, and for seven years be a Blue Bird.’

What happens: be · To what, where: Blue Bird

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: 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Fly	punct
2	Fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 window	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 window	det
5	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fly	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 King	punct
7	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 King	amod
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 window	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Bird	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Bird	cc
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Bird	obl
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 Bird	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Bird	det
16	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Bird	amod
17	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fly	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Fly	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		a Blue Bird			year		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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