The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 42
When the unhappy Fiordelisa recovered, and remembered all she had just heard, she began to cry bitterly, believing that King Charming was lost to her for ever, and all night long she sat at her open window sighing and lamenting; but when it was dawn she crept away into the darkest corner of her little room and sat there, too unhappy to care about anything.
Who acts: unhappy Fiordelisa, Fiordelisa, pleasure · What happens: recover, remember, hear, begin, cry, believe · To what, where: all, King, Fiordelisa, open window, dawn, darkest corner · 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 (unhappy Fiordelisa, Fiordelisa, pleasure), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 recovered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fiordelisa | det |
| 3 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Fiordelisa | amod |
| 4 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 recovered | nsubj |
| 5 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 began | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 remembered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 remembered | cc |
| 8 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recovered | conj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 remembered | obj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heard | aux |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 heard | advmod |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 all | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 recovered | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 cry | mark |
| 18 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 18 cry | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 believing | punct |
| 21 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 cry | advcl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 lost | mark |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | nsubj |
| 24 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 King | flat |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lost | aux:pass |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 believing | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lost | obl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 ever | case |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 lost | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sat | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sat | cc |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 night | det |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 long | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 sat | advmod |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 sat | nsubj |
| 37 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 began | conj |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 window | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 window | nmod:poss |
| 40 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 window | amod |
| 41 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sat | obl |
| 42 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 sat | advcl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 lamenting | cc |
| 44 | lamenting | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 sighing | conj |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 dawn | punct |
| 46 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 50 dawn | cc |
| 47 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 50 dawn | advmod |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 dawn | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 dawn | cop |
| 50 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 began | obl |
| 51 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 crept | nsubj |
| 52 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 dawn | acl:relcl |
| 53 | away | away | ADV | _ | 52 crept | advmod |
| 54 | into | into | ADP | _ | 57 corner | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 corner | det |
| 56 | darkest | dark | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 57 corner | amod |
| 57 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 crept | obl |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 room | case |
| 59 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 61 room | nmod:poss |
| 60 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 room | amod |
| 61 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 corner | nmod |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 sat | cc |
| 63 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 dawn | conj |
| 64 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 63 sat | advmod |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 unhappy | punct |
| 66 | too | too | ADV | _ | 67 unhappy | advmod |
| 67 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 dawn | conj |
| 68 | to | to | PART | _ | 69 care | mark |
| 69 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 67 unhappy | xcomp |
| 70 | about | about | ADP | _ | 71 anything | case |
| 71 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 69 care | obl |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past | the unhappy Fiordelisa | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | remember | past | the unhappy Fiordelisa not said here | all | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | Fiordelisa | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | Fiordelisa | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | Fiordelisa not said here | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | believe | gerund | Fiordelisa not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | lose | past · passive | King | Fiordelisa | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | sit | past | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa's open window | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | |||
| 9 | sigh | gerund | Fiordelisa not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | lament | gerund | Fiordelisa not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 11 | is a | past | pleasure | dawn | tree rules | ||||
| 12 | creep away | past | Fiordelisa | dawn not said here | the darkest corner of Fiordelisa's little room | away property | tree rules | ||
| 13 | sit | past | pleasure not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 14 | be | pleasure not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 15 | care | to-infinitive | pleasure not said here | about anything | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about anything=Stimulus |
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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