The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 94
All our trouble and anguish came From our faithfulness spoiling our enemies’ game.
Who acts: trouble, faithfulness, our · What happens: anguish, come, spoil, trouble · To what, where: faithfulness, game
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 (trouble, faithfulness, our), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 trouble | det:predet |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 3 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 anguish | cc |
| 5 | anguish | anguish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trouble | conj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | From | from | ADP | _ | 9 faithfulness | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 faithfulness | nmod:poss |
| 9 | faithfulness | faithfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | spoiling | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 faithfulness | acl |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 12 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 game | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 12 enemies | case |
| 14 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoiling | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anguish | present | our trouble not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | come | past | our trouble | our faithfulness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from faithfulness=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | spoil | gerund | our faithfulness not said here | our enemies's game | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | trouble | our | nom trouble «cognition 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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