The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 67
But the Blue Bird did not long stay in his hiding-place.
Who acts: Blue Bird · What happens: not stay · To what, where: hiding place
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:154): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 stay | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bird | det |
| 3 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Bird | amod |
| 4 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stay | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 stay | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 stay | advmod |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 place | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hiding | punct |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | past · do-support | the Blue Bird | light's hiding place | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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