The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 71

We entered by one of the windows, and when the Bird had handed me over to the Giant from whom you have been good enough to deliver me, and given the Fairy’s message, it departed.

Who acts: We, Bird, you, message · What happens: enter, hand over, be, deliver, give, depart · To what, where: me, message

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Bird, you, message), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 entered	nsubj
2	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 entered	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 windows	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 windows	det
7	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 handed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 handed	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 handed	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Bird	det
12	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 handed	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 handed	aux
14	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 entered	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 handed	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	14 handed	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 Giant	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Giant	det
19	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 handed	obl
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 whom	case
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 Giant	obl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 good	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 good	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 good	cop
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 whom	acl:relcl
26	enough	enough	ADV	_	25 good	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 deliver	mark
28	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 good	advcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 deliver	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 given	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 given	cc
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 handed	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Fairy	det
34	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 message	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Fairy	case
36	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 given	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 departed	punct
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 departed	nsubj
39	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past	We		by one of the windows	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hand over	past · perfect	the Bird	me	to the Giant	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to giant=Destination
3	is	present · perfect	you		enough, good property	tree rules
4	deliver	to-infinitive	you not said here	me		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	give	participle	the Bird not said here	the Fairy's message		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
6	depart	past	message			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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