The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 55
‘But no wonder, since I am nothing but a Blue Bird, and must remain one for seven years.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, remain · To what, where: one
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 (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonder | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 wonder | cc |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 wonder | det |
| 4 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nothing | punct |
| 6 | since | since | ADP | _ | 9 nothing | case |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 nothing | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 nothing | cop |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 wonder | appos |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 Bird | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Bird | det |
| 12 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Bird | amod |
| 13 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 remain | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 remain | cc |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 remain | aux |
| 17 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonder | parataxis |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 remain | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 20 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonder | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | since nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | must | one | for seven years | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Attribute |
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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