The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 45
When night fell he had not succeeded in discovering where Fiordelisa was imprisoned, and, weary and sad, he perched upon a branch of a tall fir tree which grew close to the tower, and began to sing himself to sleep.
Who acts: night, King, tall fir tree · What happens: fall, not succeed, discover, imprison, perch, grow · To what, where: Fiordelisa, branch, King
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, King, tall fir tree), 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 | 3 fell | advmod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 perched | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 succeeded | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 succeeded | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 succeeded | advmod |
| 7 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 fell | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 discovering | mark |
| 9 | discovering | discover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 succeeded | advcl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 imprisoned | advmod |
| 11 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 imprisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 13 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 discovering | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 weary | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 weary | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 weary | punct |
| 17 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fell | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sad | cc |
| 19 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 weary | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 perched | nsubj |
| 22 | perched | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 branch | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 branch | det |
| 25 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 perched | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 28 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tree | amod |
| 29 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tree | compound |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 branch | nmod |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 grew | nsubj |
| 32 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tree | acl:relcl |
| 33 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 grew | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 tower | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tower | det |
| 36 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 close | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 began | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 began | cc |
| 39 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 perched | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 sing | mark |
| 41 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 began | xcomp |
| 42 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 sing | obj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 sleep | mark |
| 44 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 sing | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 perched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | night | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not succeed | past · perfect | King | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | discover | gerund | King not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | imprison | past · passive | Fiordelisa | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | perch | past | King | a branch of a tall fir tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon branch=Location | ||||
| 6 | grow | past | a tall fir tree | close property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | begin | past | King not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | King not said here | King | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | ||||
| 9 | sleep | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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