The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 10
The spy did not lose a single word of the conversation, and as soon as the day dawned, and the Blue Bird had reluctantly said good-bye to the Princess, she rushed off to the Queen, and told her all she had seen and heard.
Who acts: spy, day, Bird · What happens: not lose, dawn, say, rush off, tell, see · To what, where: single word, Blue Bird, Bird, conversation · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (spy, day, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spy | det |
| 2 | spy | spy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lose | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lose | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lose | advmod |
| 5 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lose | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 conversation | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 conversation | det |
| 11 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dawned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dawned | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 dawned | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 dawned | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dawned | nsubj |
| 19 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lose | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Bird | det |
| 23 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Bird | amod |
| 24 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 said | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | aux |
| 26 | reluctantly | reluctantly | ADV | _ | 27 said | advmod |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lose | parataxis |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bye | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 good | punct |
| 30 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Princess | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Princess | det |
| 33 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 bye | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rushed | punct |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 rushed | nsubj |
| 36 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | parataxis |
| 37 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 rushed | compound:prt |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 Queen | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Queen | det |
| 40 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 rushed | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 told | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 told | cc |
| 43 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 rushed | conj |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 told | iobj |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 her | det |
| 46 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 seen | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 seen | aux |
| 48 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 told | ccomp |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 heard | cc |
| 50 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 48 seen | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose | past · do-support | the spy | a single word of the conversation | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | dawn | past | the day | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the Blue Bird | reluctantly property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme bye=Manner | ||||
| 4 | rush off | past | Bird | to the Queen result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to queen=Result | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Bird not said here | Bird | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | see | past · perfect | Bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | hear | participle | Bird not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | word | the conversation | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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