The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 32
‘Her cruel stepmother may have married her to someone else before I am myself again, and then what good will life be to me?’
Who acts: life · What happens: marry, be · To what, where: cruel stepmother
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 (life), 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 | _ | 7 married | punct |
| 2 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stepmother | amod |
| 4 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 married | aux |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 married | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 someone | case |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 married | obl |
| 11 | else | else | ADV | _ | 10 someone | advmod |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 am | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 am | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | advcl |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 am | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 am | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 what | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 what | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 what | advmod |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 married | obl |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 what | amod |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 me | aux |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 me | nsubj |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 me | cop |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 what | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | may · perfect · passive | Fiordelisa's cruel stepmother | to someone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | future | life | to me | tree rules |
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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