The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 40
That night the Queen said to the King, that his daughter was so infatuated with King Charming, in spite of his never having shown any preference for her, that it was just as well she should stay in the tower until she came to her senses.
Who acts: Queen, pleasure, King · What happens: say, infatuate, not show, be, come, spite · To what, where: King, daughter, spite, tower, senses, shown preference · 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 (Queen, pleasure, 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 infatuated | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 infatuated | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 infatuated | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 infatuated | aux:pass |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 infatuated | advmod |
| 15 | infatuated | infatuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Charming | case |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Charming | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 infatuated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spite | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 spite | case |
| 21 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 infatuated | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 preference | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 preference | nmod:poss |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 shown | advmod |
| 25 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 shown | aux |
| 26 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 preference | amod |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 preference | det |
| 28 | preference | preference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spite | nmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 preference | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 stay | punct |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 stay | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 stay | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 stay | cop |
| 35 | just | just | ADV | _ | 36 as | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 40 stay | advmod |
| 37 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 as | fixed |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 stay | nsubj |
| 39 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 stay | aux |
| 40 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 infatuated | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 tower | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 tower | det |
| 43 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stay | obl |
| 44 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 46 came | mark |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 came | nsubj |
| 46 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 stay | advcl |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 senses | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 senses | nmod:poss |
| 49 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 came | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | the King | night | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | infatuate | past · passive | King's daughter | spite of King's shown preference for Queen | with Charming King | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not show | gerund · perfect | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | should · past | pleasure | the tower | stay property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | come | past | Queen | Queen's senses | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sens=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | spite | King's shown preference for Queen | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | prefer | King | for Queen | nom preference «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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