The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 49

The Blue Bird, greatly surprised, waited impatiently for the dawn, and the moment it was light flew off to see who it could have been who spoke thus.

Who acts: Blue Bird, happiness, moment · What happens: wait, be, fly off, see, have · To what, where: light

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 (Blue Bird, happiness, moment), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bird	det
2	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Bird	amod
3	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 waited	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct
5	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	6 surprised	advmod
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Bird	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Bird	punct
8	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	_	8 waited	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 dawn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dawn	det
12	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waited	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flew	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moment	det
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flew	nsubj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 light	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 light	cop
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 moment	conj
20	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waited	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 flew	compound:prt
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 flew	advcl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 see	obj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 who	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 who	conj
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 could	parataxis
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 spoke	cop
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 spoke	nsubj
30	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 have	parataxis
31	thus	thus	ADV	_	30 spoke	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the Blue Bird		dawn	impatiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	happiness	light			tree rules
3	fly off	past	the moment and light				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	the moment and light not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus
5	have	infinitive					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	participle				speak, thus property	tree rules

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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