The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 69
By the time he got back, Fiordelisa was sitting waiting for him by the open window, and when he gave her the ring, she scolded him gently for having run such a risk to get it for her.
Who acts: light, Fiordelisa · What happens: get back, sit, wait, give, scold, run · To what, where: time, ring, Fiordelisa, light, risk
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, Fiordelisa), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sitting | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 8 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sitting | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sitting | aux |
| 10 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 sitting | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 waiting | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 window | amod |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waiting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 scolded | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 scolded | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 gave | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 scolded | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ring | det |
| 25 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 scolded | nsubj |
| 28 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sitting | parataxis |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 scolded | obj |
| 30 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 28 scolded | advmod |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 run | mark |
| 32 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 run | aux |
| 33 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 scolded | ccomp |
| 34 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 risk | det:predet |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 risk | det |
| 36 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 run | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 get | mark |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 run | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 get | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 get | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | light | the time not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | Fiordelisa | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | Fiordelisa not said here | for light; by the open window | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by window=Location | ||||
| 4 | give | past | light | the ring | Fiordelisa | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ring=Theme | |||
| 5 | scold | past | Fiordelisa | light | gently property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | run | gerund · perfect | Fiordelisa not said here | such risk | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | get | to-infinitive | Fiordelisa not said here | ring | for Fiordelisa | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for she=Beneficiary |
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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