The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 78
The following night he gave Fiordelisa a watch set in a single pearl.
Who acts: heart · What happens: follow, give, set · To what, where: watch, Fiordelisa, single pearl
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 (heart), 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 | 3 night | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 watch | det |
| 8 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 watch | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pearl | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pearl | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pearl | amod |
| 13 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | give | past | heart | a watch | Fiordelisa | night | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fiordelisa=Recipient watch=Theme | ||
| 3 | set | participle | a watch not said here | a single pearl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pearl=Destination |
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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