The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 20

He recognized them in his turn and greeted them joyfully, but when they turned afterwards to look for the Rosy Mole, the Chaffinch, and the Trotting-Mouse, they had vanished, and in their places stood a lovely lady whom they did not know, the Black Bird, and the Green Giant.

Who acts: voice, miracles, Trotting Mouse · What happens: recognize, greet, turn, look, vanish, stand · To what, where: miracles, turn, lovely lady, places

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, miracles, Trotting Mouse), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recognized	nsubj
2	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recognized	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 turn	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 turn	nmod:poss
6	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recognized	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 greeted	cc
8	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 recognized	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 greeted	obj
10	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	8 greeted	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turned	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 turned	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 turned	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 turned	nsubj
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 recognized	parataxis
16	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	15 turned	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 look	mark
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 turned	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 Mole	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Mole	det
21	Rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Mole	amod
22	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 look	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Chaffinch	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Chaffinch	det
25	Chaffinch	Chaffinch	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Mole	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 vanished	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 vanished	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Mouse	det
29	Trotting	trotting	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Mouse	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Trotting	punct
31	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 vanished	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Mouse	punct
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 vanished	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 vanished	aux
35	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 turned	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stood	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 stood	cc
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 places	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 places	nmod:poss
40	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 stood	obl
41	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 recognized	parataxis
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 lady	det
43	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 lady	amod
44	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stood	obj
45	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 know	obj
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 know	nsubj
47	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 know	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 know	advmod
49	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 lady	acl:relcl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 Bird	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Bird	det
52	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 Bird	amod
53	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 stood	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 Giant	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 Giant	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 Giant	det
57	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 Giant	amod
58	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 stood	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 recognized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	recognize	past	voice	miracles = miracle		voice's turn		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	greet speech: greet	past	voice not said here		miracles = miracle		joyfully property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	turn	past	miracles = miracle				afterwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	look	to-infinitive	miracles = miracle not said here				for the Rosy Mole and the Chaffinch	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mole=Theme
5	vanish	past · perfect	the Trotting Mouse					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	past		a lovely lady		miracles's places	the Black Bird obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme in place=Destination
7	not know	past · do-support	miracles = miracle	a lovely lady				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus

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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