The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 51
The next night, however, he was on the watch, and by the clear moonlight he saw that the sorrowful lady at the window was Fiordelisa herself.
Who acts: next night, light, sorrowful lady · What happens: be, see · To what, where: watch, Fiordelisa
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 (next night, light, sorrowful lady), 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 night | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watch | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 watch | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 watch | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 watch | cop |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 watch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 watch | det |
| 11 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 moonlight | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moonlight | det |
| 16 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 moonlight | amod |
| 17 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 watch | acl:relcl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 Fiordelisa | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lady | det |
| 22 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lady | amod |
| 23 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Fiordelisa | nsubj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 window | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 window | det |
| 26 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lady | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 Fiordelisa | cop |
| 28 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 29 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 saw | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the next night | the watch | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | light | Fiordelisa | by the clear moonlight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the sorrowful lady at the window | Fiordelisa | 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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