The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 103
‘They call me the little kitchen-maid,’ she replied, ‘and I come to offer some precious things for sale,’ and with that she searched in her old sack, and drew out the emerald bracelets King Charming had given her.
Who acts: thrones, Turritella, I · What happens: call, reply, come, offer, search, draw out · To what, where: me, precious things, old sack, emerald bracelets, Turritella · 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 (thrones, Turritella, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maid | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 maid | amod |
| 7 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maid | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 kitchen | punct |
| 9 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ‘ | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | INTJ | _ | 13 replied | discourse |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 replied | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 offer | mark |
| 20 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | xcomp |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 things | det |
| 22 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 offer | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 sale | case |
| 25 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 things | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 searched | cc |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 that | case |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 searched | obl |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 searched | nsubj |
| 32 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 replied | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 sack | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 sack | nmod:poss |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 sack | amod |
| 36 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 searched | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 drew | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 drew | cc |
| 39 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 replied | parataxis |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 drew | compound:prt |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 bracelets | det |
| 42 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bracelets | compound |
| 43 | bracelets | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 given | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 given | nsubj |
| 45 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 King | flat |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 given | aux |
| 47 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 drew | conj |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 given | iobj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | thrones = throne | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Turritella | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | offer | to-infinitive | I not said here | some precious things | for sale goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent thing=Theme for sale=Goal | |||
| 5 | search | past | Turritella | Turritella's old sack | with that | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sack=Location | |||
| 6 | draw out | past | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | give | past · perfect · passive | the emerald bracelets | Turritella | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=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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