The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 33
In the meantime the Fairy Mazilla had sent Turritella back to the Queen, who was all anxiety to know how the wedding, had gone off.
Who acts: Fairy Mazilla, Queen, wedding · What happens: send back, be, know, go off · To what, where: Turritella, meantime, anxiety · 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 (Fairy Mazilla, Queen, wedding), 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 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mazilla | det |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mazilla | compound |
| 6 | Mazilla | Mazilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | aux |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 sent | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Queen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 anxiety | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 anxiety | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 anxiety | cop |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 anxiety | det |
| 18 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Queen | appos |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 anxiety | acl |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 gone | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wedding | det |
| 23 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gone | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wedding | punct |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 gone | aux |
| 26 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 know | ccomp |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 gone | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send back | past · perfect | the Fairy Mazilla | Turritella | the meantime | to the Queen | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent turritella=Theme in meantime=Destination | ||
| 2 | is a | past | the Queen | all anxiety | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | the Fairy Mazilla not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go off | past · perfect | the wedding | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
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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