The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 11

Then the Queen sent for Turritella, and they talked it over, and very soon came to the conclusion than this Blue Bird was no other than King Charming himself.

Who acts: Queen, voices, Blue Bird · What happens: send, talk over, come, be · To what, where: word, conclusion

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 (Queen, voices, Blue 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sent	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Turritella	case
6	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 talked	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 talked	nsubj
10	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 talked	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	10 talked	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 soon	advmod
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 came	advmod
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 conclusion	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 conclusion	det
20	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	than	than	ADP	_	27 other	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 Bird	det
23	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Bird	amod
24	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 other	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 other	cop
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 came	obl
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 Charming	case
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Charming	nmod:desc
30	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 other	obl
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 Charming	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the Queen			then	for Turritella	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	talk over	past	voices = voice	word				vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	come	past	the Queen not said here		the conclusion		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial_Location
4	is	past	this Blue Bird				than Charming King Charming; other property	tree rules

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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