The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 44
As for the Queen and Turritella, they were triumphant; but their triumph was short, for the King, Fiordelisa’s father, fell ill and died, and all the people rebelled against the Queen and Turritella, and came in a body to the palace demanding Fiordelisa.
Who acts: things, triumph, father, people · What happens: be, fall, die, rebel, come, demand · To what, where: body, 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 (things, triumph, father, people), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Queen | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 triumphant | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Turritella | cc |
| 6 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Queen | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Queen | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 triumphant | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 triumphant | cop |
| 10 | triumphant | triumphant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 short | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 short | cc |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 triumph | nmod:poss |
| 14 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 short | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 short | cop |
| 16 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 triumphant | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 King | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 father | punct |
| 22 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Fiordelisa | case |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 father | punct |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 triumphant | parataxis |
| 27 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fell | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 died | cc |
| 29 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fell | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rebelled | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 rebelled | cc |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 people | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 people | det |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 rebelled | nsubj |
| 35 | rebelled | rebel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fell | conj |
| 36 | against | against | ADP | _ | 38 Queen | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Queen | det |
| 38 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 rebelled | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Turritella | cc |
| 40 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Queen | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 came | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 came | cc |
| 43 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fell | conj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 body | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 body | det |
| 46 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 came | obl |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 palace | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 palace | det |
| 49 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 came | obl |
| 50 | demanding | demand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 came | advcl |
| 51 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 demanding | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 triumphant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | things = thing | as the Queen and Turritella; triumphant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | things's triumph | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | Fiordelisa's father | for the King; ill property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for king=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | past | Fiordelisa's father not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | rebel | past | all people | against the Queen and Turritella | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V PP.maleficiary»: agent=Agent against queen=Maleficiary | ||||
| 6 | come | past | Fiordelisa's father not said here | a body | to the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | demand speech: request | gerund | Fiordelisa's father not said here | Fiordelisa | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fiordelisa=Precondition | ||||
| 8 | triumph | things = thing | nom triumph «event intransitive»: 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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