The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 100
Fiordelisa hid herself behind a marble pillar, and very soon saw Turritella make her appearance, richly dressed, but as ugly as ever, and with her came the King, more handsome and splendid even than Fiordelisa had remembered him.
Who acts: Fiordelisa, Turritella · What happens: hide, see, make, dress, come, remember · To what, where: Turritella, marble pillar, appearance, King · 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 (Fiordelisa, Turritella), 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 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 hid | obj |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 pillar | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pillar | det |
| 6 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pillar | amod |
| 7 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 saw | advmod |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | parataxis |
| 13 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 make | nsubj |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 16 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dressed | punct |
| 18 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 19 dressed | advmod |
| 19 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 make | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ugly | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 ugly | cc |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 ugly | advmod |
| 23 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dressed | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 ever | case |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 ugly | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 came | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 came | cc |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 came | obl |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 handsome | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 handsome | punct |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 handsome | advmod |
| 35 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 came | ccomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 splendid | cc |
| 37 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 handsome | conj |
| 38 | even | even | ADV | _ | 42 remembered | advmod |
| 39 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 42 remembered | mark |
| 40 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 remembered | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 remembered | aux |
| 42 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 handsome | advcl |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 remembered | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Fiordelisa | Turritella | a marble pillar | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient behind pillar=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | Turritella | Turritella's appearance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product | ||||
| 4 | dress | participle | Turritella not said here | richly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | come | past | with Turritella | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | remember | past · perfect | Fiordelisa | King | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=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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