The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 64

Then the Blue Bird was furiously angry, and told the Princess all that had happened, how he had been deceived into carrying off Turritella, and how, for refusing to marry her, the Fairy Mazilla had condemned him to be a Blue Bird for seven years.

Who acts: Blue Bird, that · What happens: be, tell, happen, deceive, carry off, refuse · To what, where: Princess, light, Turritella, Fairy Mazilla, Blue Bird · 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 (Blue Bird, that), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 angry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bird	det
3	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Bird	amod
4	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 angry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	cop
6	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	7 angry	advmod
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 happened	det:predet
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 happened	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 happened	aux
16	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 deceived	punct
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 deceived	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 deceived	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 deceived	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 deceived	aux:pass
22	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 happened	conj
23	into	into	SCONJ	_	24 carrying	mark
24	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 deceived	advcl
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 carrying	compound:prt
26	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 carrying	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 refusing	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 refusing	cc
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 refusing	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 refusing	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 refusing	mark
32	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 told	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 marry	mark
34	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 refusing	xcomp
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 marry	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 condemned	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Mazilla	det
38	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Mazilla	compound
39	Mazilla	Mazilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 condemned	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 condemned	aux
41	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 marry	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 condemned	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	47 Bird	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 Bird	cop
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 Bird	det
46	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 Bird	amod
47	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 condemned	advcl
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 years	case
49	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 years	nummod
50	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 Bird	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Blue Bird			then	angry, furiously property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past			the Princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect	that					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	deceive	past · perfect · passive		light				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	carry off	gerund		Turritella				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turritella=Theme
6	refuse	gerund						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not marry	to-infinitive		Princess				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
8	condemn	past · perfect · passive		the Fairy Mazilla				tree rules
9	is a	to-infinitive		a Blue Bird		year		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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