The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 16
‘Blue Bird, blue as the sky, Fly to me now, there’s nobody by!’
Who acts: you · What happens: fly · To what, where: Blue Bird, me
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 (you), 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 Bird | punct |
| 2 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bird | amod |
| 3 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fly | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blue | punct |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bird | amod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 sky | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sky | det |
| 8 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blue | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bird | punct |
| 10 | Fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Fly | obl |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 Fly | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ’s | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 ’s | expl |
| 16 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Fly | advcl |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 ’s | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 nobody | fixed |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fly | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | imperative | you not said here | Blue Bird | me | now | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to i=Result |
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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