The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 43

In the meantime Fiordelisa, quite in despair, sat at her window day and night calling her dear Blue Bird in vain, and imagining over and over again all the terrible things that could have happened to him, until she grew quite pale and thin.

Who acts: terrible things, Bird · What happens: sit, call, imagine, happen, grow · To what, where: meantime, dear Blue Bird, vain, terrible things, Fiordelisa · 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 (terrible things, Bird), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
4	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 meantime	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 despair	punct
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 despair	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 despair	case
8	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Fiordelisa	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 meantime	punct
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 day	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 day	nmod:poss
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 day	compound
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 night	cc
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 day	conj
17	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sat	advcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 Bird	nmod:poss
19	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Bird	amod
20	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Bird	amod
21	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 calling	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 vain	case
23	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 calling	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 imagining	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 imagining	cc
26	imagining	imagine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 calling	conj
27	over	over	ADV	_	26 imagining	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 over	cc
29	over	over	ADV	_	27 over	conj
30	again	again	ADV	_	26 imagining	advmod
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 things	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 things	det
33	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 things	amod
34	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 imagining	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 happened	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 happened	aux
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 happened	aux
38	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 things	acl:relcl
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 happened	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 grew	punct
42	until	until	SCONJ	_	44 grew	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 grew	nsubj
44	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
45	quite	quite	ADV	_	46 pale	advmod
46	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 grew	xcomp
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 thin	cc
48	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 pale	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past				the meantime	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meantime=Location
2	call	gerund			Princess's dear Blue Bird	vain			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient
3	imagine	gerund		all terrible things			again	over property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
4	happen	could · perfect	all terrible things		Fiordelisa				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grow	past	Bird					pale property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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