The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 47
Very soon, with all the care and attention they bestowed upon her, she recovered from the effects of her long captivity and looked more beautiful than ever, and was able to take counsel with her courtiers, and arrange for the governing of her kingdom during her absence.
Who acts: nobles, Queen · What happens: bestow, recover, look, be, take, arrange · To what, where: effects, counsel, long captivity, kingdom
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 (nobles, Queen), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 bestowed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 care | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 care | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 care | det |
| 7 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bestowed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 attention | cc |
| 9 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 care | conj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bestowed | nsubj |
| 11 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bestowed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 recovered | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 recovered | nsubj |
| 16 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bestowed | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 effects | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 effects | det |
| 19 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 recovered | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 captivity | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 captivity | nmod:poss |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 captivity | amod |
| 23 | captivity | captivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 effects | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 looked | cc |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 recovered | conj |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 beautiful | advmod |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 looked | xcomp |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 ever | case |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 beautiful | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 able | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 able | cc |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 able | cop |
| 33 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bestowed | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 able | xcomp |
| 36 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 courtiers | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 39 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 take | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 arrange | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 arrange | cc |
| 42 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 take | conj |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 governing | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 governing | det |
| 45 | governing | governing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 arrange | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 kingdom | case |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 48 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 governing | nmod |
| 49 | during | during | ADP | _ | 51 absence | case |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 absence | nmod:poss |
| 51 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 arrange | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 bestowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | past | nobles = noble | with all care and attention; upon Queen; soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recover | past | Queen | the effects of Queen's long captivity | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from effect=Source | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Queen not said here | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | nobles = noble not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | nobles = noble not said here | counsel | with Queen's courtiers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 6 | arrange | infinitive | nobles = noble not said here | during Queen's absence | for the governing of Queen's kingdom | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for governing=Beneficiary | |||
| 7 | effect | Queen's long captivity | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | govern | Queen's kingdom | nom governing «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | absent | Queen | nom absence «state transitive»: 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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