The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 57
Little Blue Bird, are you really the powerful King Charming?’ said the Princess, caressing him.
Who acts: Little Blue Bird · What happens: be, say, caress · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Little Blue Bird), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bird | amod |
| 2 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bird | amod |
| 3 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bird | punct |
| 5 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 Charming | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Charming | det |
| 9 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Charming | amod |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Charming | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 you | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 Charming | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Charming | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caressing | punct |
| 18 | caressing | caress | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 caressing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Little Blue Bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | caress | gerund | Little Blue Bird not said here | King | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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