The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 27
As she spoke the King’s face altered, his arms turned to wings, his feet to little crooked black claws.
Who acts: Bird, face, arms · What happens: speak, alter, turn · To what, where: wings · 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 (Bird, face, arms), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 spoke | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 turned | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 altered | nsubj |
| 8 | altered | alter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arms | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 wings | case |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feet | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wings | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 claws | case |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 claws | amod |
| 20 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 claws | amod |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 claws | amod |
| 22 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turned | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Bird | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | alter | past | the King's face | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | King's arms | wings and King's feet | to little crooked black claws | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to wing=Source to claw=Trajectory |
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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