The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 46
Turritella fled to the Fairy Mazilla, and all the nobles of the kingdom fetched the Princess Fiordelisa from her prison in the tower, and made her Queen.
Who acts: Turritella, nobles · What happens: flee, fetch, make · To what, where: Fairy Mazilla, Princess Fiordelisa, prison, 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 (Turritella, nobles), 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 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fled | nsubj |
| 2 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Mazilla | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mazilla | det |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mazilla | compound |
| 6 | Mazilla | Mazilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fetched | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fetched | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 nobles | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nobles | det |
| 11 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fetched | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kingdom | det |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nobles | nmod |
| 15 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fled | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Fiordelisa | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Fiordelisa | compound |
| 18 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fetched | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 prison | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 prison | nmod:poss |
| 21 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fetched | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 tower | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tower | det |
| 24 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fetched | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fled | conj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 29 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | Turritella | the Fairy Mazilla | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mazilla=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | fetch | past | all nobles of the kingdom | the Princess Fiordelisa | Turritella's prison | in the tower | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fiordelisa=Theme from prison=Source | ||
| 3 | make | past | Turritella not said here | Turritella's Queen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset queen=Product |
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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