The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 5

But the next night the spy slept as soundly as before, so that the Blue Bird came, and he and the Princess began to think they were perfectly safe, and to make all sorts of plans for being happy as they were before the Queen’s visit.

Who acts: spy, Blue Bird, sight · What happens: sleep, come, begin, think, be, make · To what, where: sorts, plans · 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 (spy, Blue Bird, sight), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 slept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slept	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spy	det
6	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slept	nsubj
7	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 soundly	advmod
9	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	7 slept	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 before	case
11	before	before	ADV	_	7 slept	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Bird	det
16	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Bird	amod
17	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slept	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 began	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Princess	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 he	conj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 think	mark
27	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 safe	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 safe	cop
30	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	31 safe	advmod
31	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 think	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 make	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 make	cc
34	to	to	PART	_	35 make	mark
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 think	conj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 sorts	det
37	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 make	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 plans	case
39	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 sorts	nmod
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 happy	case
41	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 happy	cop
42	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 make	obl
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 visit	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 visit	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 visit	cop
46	before	before	ADP	_	50 visit	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Queen	det
48	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 visit	nmod:poss
49	’s	's	PART	_	48 Queen	case
50	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 happy	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	the spy		night	soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the Blue Bird				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	spy				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	spy not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	sight			perfectly, safe property	tree rules
6	make	to-infinitive	spy not said here	all sorts of plans			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sort=Product
7	is	gerund				happy property	tree rules
8	is	past	sight		before the Queen's visit		tree rules
9	sort			plans			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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