The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 97
As soon as she saw her, Fiordelisa, with great presence of mind, hastily shut her little window, that the Blue Bird might have time to escape, and then turned to meet the Queen, who overwhelmed her with a torrent of reproaches.
Who acts: Queen, Blue Bird · What happens: see, have, escape, turn, meet, overwhelm · To what, where: voice, Queen
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 (Queen, Blue Bird), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fiordelisa | punct |
| 8 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 presence | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 presence | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 presence | amod |
| 12 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mind | case |
| 14 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 presence | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shut | punct |
| 16 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 17 shut | advmod |
| 17 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 window | nmod:poss |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 window | amod |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shut | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Bird | det |
| 24 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Bird | amod |
| 25 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saw | conj |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 escape | mark |
| 30 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 time | acl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 turned | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 turned | cc |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 turned | advmod |
| 34 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 meet | mark |
| 36 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 turned | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Queen | det |
| 38 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 meet | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 overwhelmed | punct |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 overwhelmed | nsubj |
| 41 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 Queen | acl:relcl |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 overwhelmed | obj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 torrent | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 torrent | det |
| 45 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 overwhelmed | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 reproaches | case |
| 47 | reproaches | reproach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 torrent | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Queen | voice | with great presence of mind; Fiordelisa obl; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have | might | the Blue Bird | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | escape | to-infinitive | the Blue Bird not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn | past | Queen not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | the Queen | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | overwhelm | past | the Queen | Queen | with a torrent of reproaches | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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