The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 30
He flew on until he reached the thickest part of the wood, and there, perched upon a cypress tree, he bewailed his miserable fate.
Who acts: King · What happens: fly on, reach, perch, bewail, fate · To what, where: thickest part, cypress tree, miserable fate
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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 flew | compound:prt |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 part | det |
| 8 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 part | amod |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wood | det |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 part | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 perched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 perched | cc |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 perched | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 perched | punct |
| 17 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 flew | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 20 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tree | compound |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 perched | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bewailed | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bewailed | nsubj |
| 24 | bewailed | bewail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fate | nmod:poss |
| 26 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fate | amod |
| 27 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bewailed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly on | past | King | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | King | the thickest part of the wood | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 3 | perch | participle | King not said here | a cypress tree; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | bewail | past | King | King's miserable fate | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | fate | King | nom fate «event 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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