The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 96

They sound melancholy perhaps, but the two voices sang them gaily enough, and the Queen burst open the door, crying, ‘Ah! my Turritella, there is some treachery going on here!’

Who acts: enemies, two voices, Queen, Turritella · What happens: sound, sing, burst, open, cry, go · To what, where: melancholy, enemies, door

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 (enemies, two voices, Queen, Turritella), 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 sound	nsubj
2	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sound	obj
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	2 sound	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sang	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 sang	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 voices	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 voices	nummod
9	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sang	nsubj
10	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sound	parataxis
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sang	obj
12	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sang	xcomp
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 gaily	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 burst	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 burst	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Queen	det
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 burst	nsubj
18	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sang	conj
19	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 burst	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 open	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crying	punct
23	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 open	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 going	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 going	punct
26	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	29 Turritella	discourse
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 Ah	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 Turritella	nmod:poss
29	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 going	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 is	punct
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 is	expl
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 going	aux
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 treachery	det
34	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 is	nsubj
35	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 burst	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 here	case
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 going	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 sound	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 sound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sound	present	enemies = enemy	melancholy	perhaps property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location melancholy=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	the two voices	enemies = enemy	gaily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
3	burst	past	the Queen			tree rules
4	open	infinitive	the Queen not said here	the door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	cry speech: express	gerund	the Queen not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	present · progressive	my Turritella			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on here=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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