The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 91

Now it happened that it was nearly midnight, and Fiordelisa, all decked with jewels, was sitting at the window with the Blue Bird, and as the Queen paused outside the door to listen she heard the Princess and her lover singing together a little song he had just taught her.

Who acts: it, tower, Fiordelisa, Queen, little song · What happens: happen, be, deck, sit, pause, listen · To what, where: midnight, Fiordelisa, window, door, Princess, little song

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 (it, tower, Fiordelisa, Queen), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 midnight	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 midnight	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 midnight	cop
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 midnight	advmod
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sitting	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sitting	cc
11	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sitting	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 decked	punct
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 decked	advmod
14	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 Fiordelisa	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 jewels	case
16	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 decked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Fiordelisa	punct
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sitting	aux
19	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 happened	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 window	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sitting	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 Bird	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Bird	det
25	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Bird	amod
26	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sitting	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 paused	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 paused	cc
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 paused	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Queen	det
31	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 paused	nsubj
32	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	conj
33	outside	outside	ADP	_	35 door	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 paused	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 listen	mark
37	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 paused	advcl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 heard	nsubj
39	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 listen	ccomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Princess	det
41	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 heard	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lover	cc
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 lover	nmod:poss
44	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Princess	conj
45	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 heard	advcl
46	together	together	ADV	_	45 singing	advmod
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 song	det
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 song	amod
49	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 singing	obj
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 taught	nsubj:pass
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 taught	aux
52	just	just	ADV	_	53 taught	advmod
53	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 song	acl:relcl
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 taught	iobj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it				now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	tower	midnight				nearly property	tree rules
3	deck	participle		Fiordelisa not said here				with jewels; all property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=Theme
4	sit	past · progressive	Fiordelisa			the window		with the Blue Bird	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location
5	pause	past	the Queen			the door			vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside door=Location
6	listen	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here						tree rules
7	hear	past	Fiordelisa	the Princess and Fiordelisa's lover					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
8	sing speech: express	gerund	Fiordelisa not said here	a little song				together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
9	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive	a little song not said here	Turritella	Fiordelisa				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic

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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