The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 65

The Princess was very happy when she heard how faithful her lover was, and would never have tired of hearing his loving speeches and explanations, but too soon the sun rose, and they had to part lest the Blue Bird should be discovered.

Who acts: Princess, lover, sun, speeches, part, light · What happens: be, hear, not have, rise, have, discover · To what, where: loving speeches, part, 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 (Princess, lover, sun, speeches), 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	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 happy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	parataxis
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 faithful	advmod
10	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heard	ccomp
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lover	nmod:poss
12	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 faithful	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 faithful	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 have	advmod
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heard	conj
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 have	xcomp
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 hearing	mark
21	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 tired	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 speeches	nmod:poss
23	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 speeches	amod
24	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hearing	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 explanations	cc
26	explanations	explanation	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 speeches	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rose	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 rose	cc
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 soon	advmod
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 rose	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sun	det
32	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rose	nsubj
33	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 part	mark
39	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
40	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	46 discovered	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Bird	det
42	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Bird	amod
43	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 discovered	nsubj:pass
44	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 discovered	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 discovered	aux:pass
46	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 part	acl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Princess		happy property	tree rules
2	hear	past	Princess			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Princess's lover		faithful property	tree rules
4	not have	would	Princess not said here		tired property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	hear	gerund	Princess not said here	light's loving speeches and explanations		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus
6	rise	past	the sun		soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	have	past	speeches = speech	part		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient
8	discover	should · passive	part not said here	the Blue Bird		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
9	speak		light			nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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