The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 31

‘Alas! in seven years who knows what may happen to my darling Fiordelisa!’ he said.

Who acts: King · What happens: know, happen, say · To what, where: darling Fiordelisa · 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 knows	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 years	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 knows	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 knows	nsubj
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happen	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	aux
11	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 knows	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 Fiordelisa	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Fiordelisa	nmod:poss
14	darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Fiordelisa	amod
15	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 happen	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 knows	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 knows	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	know	present			year	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen	may		my darling Fiordelisa		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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