The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 35
‘She shall have cause to repent that the King admires her,’ said the Queen, nodding her head meaningly, and then she and Turritella went up to the little room in the tower where the Princess was imprisoned.
Who acts: wrath, King, Queen · What happens: have, repent, admire, say, nod, go up · To what, where: cause, wrath, head, Princess · 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 (wrath, King, Queen), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 repent | mark |
| 7 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cause | acl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 admires | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 admires | nsubj |
| 11 | admires | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 repent | ccomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 admires | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Queen | det |
| 17 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nodding | punct |
| 19 | nodding | nod | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nodding | obj |
| 22 | meaningly | meaningly | ADV | _ | 19 nodding | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 went | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 went | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Turritella | cc |
| 28 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 she | conj |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 went | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 room | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 room | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 room | amod |
| 34 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 tower | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tower | det |
| 37 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 room | nmod |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 imprisoned | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Princess | det |
| 40 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 imprisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 42 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 tower | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | wrath | cause | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient | ||||
| 2 | repent | to-infinitive | wrath not said here | cause not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | admire | present | the King | wrath | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | nod | gerund | the Queen not said here | wrath's head | meaningly property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 6 | go up | past | wrath | then | to the little room in the tower | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 7 | imprison | past · passive | the Princess | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=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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