The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 68
He flew away, and away, until he came to his own palace, and got into it through a broken window, and there he found the cabinet where his jewels were kept, and chose out a splendid diamond ring as a present for the Princess.
Who acts: light · What happens: fly away, come, get, break, find, keep · To what, where: own palace, palace, cabinet, jewels, splendid diamond ring
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 (light), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 flew | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 away | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 away | cc |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 flew | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 palace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 palace | amod |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | obl |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 window | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 window | det |
| 22 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 window | amod |
| 23 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 found | cc |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 found | expl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | nsubj |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cabinet | det |
| 30 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obj |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 kept | advmod |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 33 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 kept | aux:pass |
| 35 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 cabinet | acl:relcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 chose | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 chose | cc |
| 38 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 chose | compound:prt |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 ring | det |
| 41 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 ring | amod |
| 42 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ring | compound |
| 43 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 chose | obj |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 present | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 present | det |
| 46 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 chose | obl |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 Princess | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Princess | det |
| 49 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 present | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | light | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | light | light's own palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | get | past | light not said here | palace | through a broken window | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location through window=Destination | |||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | find | past | light | the cabinet | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabinet=Topic | |||
| 6 | keep | past · passive | light's jewels | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | choose out | past | light not said here | a splendid diamond ring | as a present for the Princess | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
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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