The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 43
As soon as night came again she once more leaned out into the darkness and bewailed her miserable lot.
Who acts: night, Fiordelisa · What happens: come, lean out, bewail · To what, where: darkness, miserable lot
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 (night, Fiordelisa), 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 | As | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leaned | nsubj |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 leaned | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 leaned | advmod |
| 10 | leaned | lean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | parataxis |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 leaned | compound:prt |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 darkness | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 darkness | det |
| 14 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaned | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bewailed | cc |
| 16 | bewailed | bewail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lot | nmod:poss |
| 18 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lot | amod |
| 19 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bewailed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lean out | participle | Fiordelisa | the darkness | once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | bewail | past | night not said here | Fiordelisa's miserable lot | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=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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