The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 22
But it happened that his friend the Enchanter had been very much alarmed at seeing the Frog chariot come back to him without King Charming, and had been round the world eight times seeking him, but without success.
Who acts: it, eight times · What happens: happen, alarm, see, come back, be, seek · To what, where: friend, Frog chariot, Fiordelisa
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 (it, eight times), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 happened | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 alarmed | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Enchanter | det |
| 8 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 friend | appos |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 alarmed | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 alarmed | advmod |
| 13 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 come | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 15 seeing | mark |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 alarmed | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chariot | det |
| 17 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 chariot | compound |
| 18 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seeing | obj |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 come | obl |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 Charming | case |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Charming | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 world | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 world | cc |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 world | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 world | cop |
| 30 | round | round | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 33 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 times | nummod |
| 34 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 world | appos |
| 35 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 times | acl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seeking | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 success | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 success | cc |
| 39 | without | without | ADP | _ | 40 success | case |
| 40 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | without success | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | alarm | past · perfect · passive | Fiordelisa's friend | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | gerund | the Frog chariot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chariot=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come back | present | Fiordelisa | without Charming King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | round the world | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | seek | gerund | eight times not said here | Fiordelisa | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: 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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