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The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 29

As soon as the transformation was complete the King uttered a dolorous cry and fled through the open window, pursued by the mocking laughter of Turritella and the Fairy Mazilla.

Who acts: transformation, King · What happens: be, utter, flee, pursue, mock · To what, where: dolorous cry, open window

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 (transformation, King), 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

advmodadvmodmarkdetnsubjcopdetnsubjparataxisdetamodobjccconjcasedetamodoblpunctconjcasedetamodoblcasenmodccdetcompoundconjpunctrootAsADVsoonADVasSCONJtheDETtransformationNOUNwasAUXcompleteADJtheDETKingPROPNutteredVERBaDETdolorousADJcryNOUNandCCONJfledVERBthroughADPtheDETopenADJwindowNOUN,PUNCTpursuedVERBbyADPtheDETmockingVERBlaughterNOUNofADPTurritellaPROPNandCCONJtheDETFairyPROPNMazillaPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasADV_2 soonadvmod
2soonsoonADVDegree=Pos7 completeadvmod
3asasSCONJ_7 completemark
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 transformationdet
5transformationtransformationNOUNNumber=Sing7 completensubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 completecop
7completecompleteADJDegree=Posrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Kingdet
9KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing10 utterednsubj
10utteredutterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 completeparataxis
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 crydet
12dolorousdolorousADJDegree=Pos13 cryamod
13crycryNOUNNumber=Sing10 utteredobj
14andandCCONJ_15 fledcc
15fledfleeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 utteredconj
16throughthroughADP_19 windowcase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 windowdet
18openopenADJDegree=Pos19 windowamod
19windowwindowNOUNNumber=Sing15 fledobl
20,,PUNCT_21 pursuedpunct
21pursuedpursueVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 fledconj
22bybyADP_25 laughtercase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 laughterdet
24mockingmockVERBVerbForm=Ger25 laughteramod
25laughterlaughterNOUNNumber=Sing21 pursuedobl
26ofofADP_27 Turritellacase
27TurritellaTurritellaPROPNNumber=Sing25 laughternmod
28andandCCONJ_31 Mazillacc
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 Mazilladet
30FairyFairyPROPNNumber=Sing31 Mazillacompound
31MazillaMazillaPROPNNumber=Sing27 Turritellaconj
32..PUNCT_7 completepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe transformationcomplete, soon propertytree rules
2utter speech: otherpastthe Kinga dolorous cryvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
3fleepastthe King not said herethe open windowvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through window=Initial_Location
4pursueparticiplethe King not said hereby the mocking laughter of Turritella and the Fairy Mazillavn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by laughter=Trajectory
5mockgerundvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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