The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 44
Now it happened that King Charming, or rather the Blue Bird, had been flying round the palace in the hope of seeing his beloved Princess, but had not dared to go too near the windows for fear of being seen and recognised by Turritella.
Who acts: it, hope · What happens: happen, fly, see, not dare, not go, recognise · To what, where: Charming, palace, beloved Princess, windows, fear
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 (it, hope), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 Charming | mark |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Charming | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bird | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 Bird | cc |
| 9 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 Bird | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bird | det |
| 11 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Bird | amod |
| 12 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Charming | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flying | punct |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flying | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 flying | aux |
| 16 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | advcl |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flying | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hope | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hope | det |
| 22 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 palace | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 seeing | mark |
| 24 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 hope | acl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 26 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Princess | amod |
| 27 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seeing | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dared | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 dared | cc |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 dared | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 dared | advmod |
| 32 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 dared | xcomp |
| 35 | too | too | ADV | _ | 34 go | advmod |
| 36 | near | near | ADP | _ | 38 windows | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 windows | det |
| 38 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 go | obl |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 fear | case |
| 40 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 windows | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 43 seen | mark |
| 42 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 seen | aux:pass |
| 43 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 fear | acl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 recognised | cc |
| 45 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 seen | conj |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 Turritella | case |
| 47 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 recognised | obl:agent |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | Charming King or the Blue Bird | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly | past · perfect · progressive | the palace in the hope | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round palace=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | see | gerund | the hope not said here | King's beloved Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not dare | past · perfect | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | not go | to-infinitive | the windows for fear | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near window=Location | |||||
| 6 | see | gerund · passive | fear not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 7 | recognise | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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