The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 48
And then, taking a bagful of jewels, she set out all alone to look for the Blue Bird, without telling anyone where she was going.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: take, set out, look, tell, go · To what, where: bagful, anyone · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 taking | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 taking | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 taking | punct |
| 4 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bagful | det |
| 6 | bagful | bagful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taking | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 jewels | case |
| 8 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bagful | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taking | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 alone | advmod |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 set | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Bird | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Bird | det |
| 19 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Bird | amod |
| 20 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 telling | punct |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 telling | mark |
| 23 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 set | conj |
| 24 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 telling | obj |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 going | advmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 going | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 going | aux |
| 28 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | a bagful of jewels | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagful=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | Queen | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | for the Blue Bird | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bird=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Queen not said here | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | Queen | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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