The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 38

‘What is to be done next?’ said the Enchanter, ‘since you still have five years to remain a Blue Bird.’

Who acts: Enchanter, you · What happens: do, say, have, remain · To what, where: Blue Bird · 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, 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	_	6 done	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 done	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux:pass
4	to	to	PART	_	6 done	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
7	next	next	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Enchanter	det
12	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	since	since	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 have	advmod
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
19	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 years	nummod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 remain	mark
22	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Bird	det
24	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Bird	amod
25	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 remain	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · passive				next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the Enchanter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	you		still; year		tree rules
4	remain	to-infinitive	you not said here	a Blue Bird			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Attribute

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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