The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 36
The Enchanter quite agreed with him, and even went further, declaring that all Princesses were alike, except perhaps in the matter of beauty, and advised him to have done with Fiordelisa, and forget all about her.
Who acts: Enchanter, Princesses, beauty · What happens: agree, go, declare, be, advise, do · To what, where: Charming · 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 (Enchanter, Princesses, beauty), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Enchanter | det |
| 2 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 agreed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 11 | further | further | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 declaring | punct |
| 13 | declaring | declare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 alike | mark |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 Princesses | det |
| 16 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 alike | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 alike | cop |
| 18 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 declaring | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 matter | punct |
| 20 | except | except | ADP | _ | 24 matter | case |
| 21 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 24 matter | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 matter | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 matter | det |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 alike | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 beauty | case |
| 26 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 matter | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 advised | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 advised | cc |
| 29 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | parataxis |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 advised | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 done | mark |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 done | aux |
| 33 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 advised | ccomp |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 Fiordelisa | case |
| 35 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 done | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 forget | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 forget | cc |
| 38 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 advised | conj |
| 39 | all | all | ADV | _ | 41 her | advmod |
| 40 | about | about | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 forget | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Enchanter | with Charming | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the Enchanter not said here | further property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | gerund | the Enchanter not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | all Princesses | except the matter of beauty; alike property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | advise speech: other | past | Charming | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive · perfect | with Fiordelisa | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | forget | infinitive | about Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | matter | beauty | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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