The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 72

They talked all night long, and the next morning the Blue Bird flew off to his kingdom, and crept into his palace through the broken window, and chose from his treasures two bracelets, each cut out of a single emerald.

Who acts: jewels, Blue Bird, each, light · What happens: talk, fly off, creep, break, choose, cut out · To what, where: palace, treasures, single emerald

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 (jewels, Blue Bird, each, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talked	obl:unmarked
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 talked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 morning	amod
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	obl:unmarked
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Bird	det
12	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Bird	amod
13	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 flew	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 kingdom	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 kingdom	nmod:poss
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 crept	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 crept	cc
21	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 palace	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 palace	nmod:poss
24	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crept	obl
25	through	through	ADP	_	28 window	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 window	det
27	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 window	amod
28	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crept	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chose	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 chose	cc
31	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	parataxis
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 treasures	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 treasures	nmod:poss
34	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 chose	obl
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 bracelets	nummod
36	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 treasures	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 cut	punct
38	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	39 cut	nsubj
39	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 chose	conj
40	out	out	ADP	_	44 emerald	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 emerald	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 emerald	det
43	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 emerald	amod
44	emerald	emerald	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cut	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	jewels = jewel			night	long property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fly off	past	the Blue Bird			morning	to light's kingdom result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Result
3	creep	past	jewels = jewel not said here		light's palace		through the broken window	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into palace=Destination
4	break	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	choose	past			light's treasures and two bracelets			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from treasure=Source
6	cut out	past	each	a single emerald				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector emerald=Eventuality
7	treasure		light					nom treasure «possession 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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