The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 83
Day by day he brought more beautiful things for the Princess--diamonds, and rubies, and opals; and at night she decked herself with them to please him, but by day she hid them in her straw mattress.
Who acts: Day, Princess · What happens: bring, deck, please, hide · To what, where: beautiful things, Princess, stepmother, things, straw mattress
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 (Day, Princess), 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | nmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Princess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 things | nmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 diamonds | punct |
| 13 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 things | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rubies | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rubies | cc |
| 16 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 things | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 opals | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 opals | cc |
| 19 | opals | opal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 decked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 decked | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 decked | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 decked | nsubj |
| 25 | decked | deck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 26 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 decked | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 decked | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 please | mark |
| 30 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 decked | advcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 please | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hid | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 hid | cc |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 day | case |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hid | obl |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hid | nsubj |
| 37 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hid | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 mattress | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 mattress | nmod:poss |
| 41 | straw | straw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 mattress | amod |
| 42 | mattress | mattress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hid | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Day by day | beautiful things and diamonds and rubies | for the Princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | deck | past | Princess | Princess | night | with opals = opal | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Destination with they=Theme | ||
| 3 | please | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | stepmother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hide | past | Princess | things = thing | Princess's straw mattress | day | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in mattress=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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