The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 1
However, at last the spy, who had never taken her eyes off the Princess day or night, was so overcome with weariness that she fell into a deep sleep, and as son as the Princess saw that, she flew to open her window and cried softly:
Who acts: last spy, she, Princess · What happens: not take, be, fall, see, fly, open · To what, where: eyes, last spy, deep sleep, that, window
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (last spy, she, Princess), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 23 overcome | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 spy | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spy | amod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spy | det |
| 6 | spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 overcome | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 taken | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 taken | advmod |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 spy | acl:relcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 taken | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 day | compound |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 night | cc |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spy | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 overcome | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 overcome | advmod |
| 23 | overcome | overcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 weariness | case |
| 25 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 overcome | obl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 fell | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fell | nsubj |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 overcome | advcl |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 sleep | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 sleep | det |
| 31 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sleep | amod |
| 32 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 saw | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 saw | cc |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 son | case |
| 36 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 saw | obl |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 Princess | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Princess | det |
| 39 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 son | nmod |
| 40 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fell | conj |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 saw | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 flew | punct |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 flew | nsubj |
| 44 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 overcome | parataxis |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 open | mark |
| 46 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 flew | xcomp |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 window | nmod:poss |
| 48 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 open | obj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 cried | cc |
| 50 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 flew | conj |
| 51 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 50 cried | advmod |
| 52 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · perfect | the last spy | her eyes | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the last spy | with weariness; however, overcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | she | into a deep sleep result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result | ||||
| 4 | see | past | she not said here | that | as son as the Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus as son=Attribute | |||
| 5 | fly | past | Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | open | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Princess's window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | ||||
| 7 | cry speech: express | past | Princess not said here | softly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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