The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 28
In a moment he had a slender body like a bird, covered with shining blue feathers, his beak was like ivory, his eyes were bright as stars, and a crown of white feathers adorned his head.
Who acts: face, beak, eyes, crown · What happens: have, cover, shine, be, adorn, crown · To what, where: slender body, bird, blue feathers, head, white feathers
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 (face, beak, eyes, crown), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 7 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 body | amod |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 bird | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 covered | punct |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bird | acl |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 shining | mark |
| 15 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 covered | advcl |
| 16 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feathers | amod |
| 17 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shining | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ivory | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 beak | nmod:poss |
| 20 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ivory | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ivory | cop |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 ivory | case |
| 23 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shining | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bright | punct |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bright | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 bright | cop |
| 28 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ivory | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 stars | case |
| 30 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bright | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 adorned | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 adorned | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 crown | det |
| 34 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 adorned | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 feathers | case |
| 36 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 feathers | amod |
| 37 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 crown | nmod |
| 38 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 head | nmod:poss |
| 40 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 adorned | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | face | a slender body | moment | like a bird | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||
| 2 | cover | participle | a bird not said here | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | blue feathers | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | face's beak | like ivory | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | face's eyes | as stars; bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | adorn | past | a crown of white feathers | face's head | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination | ||||
| 7 | crown | white feathers | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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