The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 45
The Queen came out upon the balcony with threats and haughty words, so that at last they lost their patience, and broke open the doors of the palace, one of which fell back upon the Queen and killed her.
Who acts: Queen, people, one · What happens: come out, lose, break, open, fall back, kill · To what, where: patience, doors, Queen
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 (Queen, people, one), 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 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 balcony | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 balcony | det |
| 7 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 threats | case |
| 9 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 balcony | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 words | cc |
| 11 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 threats | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 last | punct |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 17 last | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 last | acl:relcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 patience | nmod:poss |
| 21 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lost | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 broke | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 broke | cc |
| 24 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 25 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 broke | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 doors | det |
| 27 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 open | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 palace | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 palace | det |
| 30 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 doors | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 one | punct |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 fell | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 fell | nsubj |
| 35 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 doors | acl:relcl |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 35 fell | advmod |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 Queen | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Queen | det |
| 39 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 fell | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 killed | cc |
| 41 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 fell | conj |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 killed | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the Queen | upon the balcony with threats and haughty words; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | people | people's patience | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | break | past | the Queen not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open | infinitive | the Queen not said here | the doors of the palace | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall back | past | one | upon the Queen | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon queen=Location | ||||
| 6 | kill | past | one not said here | Queen | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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