The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 35
And then he told the whole story, accusing Fiordelisa of having betrayed the secret of his visits to make her peace with the Queen, and indeed saying a great many hard things about her fickleness and her deceitful beauty, and so on.
Who acts: Charming, Fiordelisa, Princess · What happens: tell, accuse, betray, make, say, visit · To what, where: whole story, secret, peace, great many hard things · 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 (Charming, Fiordelisa, Princess), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 told | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 accusing | punct |
| 9 | accusing | accuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 told | advcl |
| 10 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 betrayed | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 betrayed | mark |
| 12 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 betrayed | aux |
| 13 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 accusing | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 secret | det |
| 15 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 betrayed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 visits | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 visits | nmod:poss |
| 18 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 secret | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 betrayed | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 peace | nmod:poss |
| 22 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Queen | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Queen | det |
| 25 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saying | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 saying | cc |
| 28 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 29 saying | advmod |
| 29 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 told | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 things | det |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 things | amod |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 things | amod |
| 33 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 things | amod |
| 34 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 saying | obj |
| 35 | about | about | ADP | _ | 37 fickleness | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 fickleness | nmod:poss |
| 37 | fickleness | fickleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 things | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 beauty | cc |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 40 | deceitful | deceitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 beauty | amod |
| 41 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fickleness | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 on | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 on | cc |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 on | advmod |
| 45 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Charming | the whole story | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | accuse | gerund | Charming not said here | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | betray | gerund · perfect | Fiordelisa | the secret of Charming's visits | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Fiordelisa not said here | Princess's peace | with the Queen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | Charming not said here | a great many hard things | about Princess's fickleness and Princess's deceitful beauty; indeed property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | |||
| 6 | visit | Charming | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | pacify | Princess | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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