The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 58
The Enchanter hadn’t a word to say, for he thought Turritella really frightful, but he could not go away without making one more effort for his friend the King, who was really in great danger as long as he lived in a cage.
Who acts: Enchanter, King · What happens: have, say, think, not go away, make, be · To what, where: word, Turritella, one more effort, great danger, cage · 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 (Enchanter, King), 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 Enchanter | det |
| 2 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 word | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 word | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 13 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 frightful | advmod |
| 15 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Turritella | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 go | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 go | advmod |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 24 making | mark |
| 24 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 go | advcl |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 effort | nummod |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 effort | amod |
| 27 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 making | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 friend | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 friend | nmod:poss |
| 30 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 making | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 making | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 danger | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 danger | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 danger | cop |
| 36 | really | really | ADV | _ | 39 danger | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 danger | case |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 danger | amod |
| 39 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 King | appos |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 long | advmod |
| 41 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 danger | advmod |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 lived | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 lived | nsubj |
| 44 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 long | advcl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 cage | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 cage | det |
| 47 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 lived | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Enchanter | a word | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Enchanter not said here | a word not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Enchanter | Turritella | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot turritella=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not go away | could | Enchanter | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | gerund | Enchanter not said here | one more effort | for Enchanter's friend | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent effort=Product for friend=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | is | past | the King | great danger | long property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | live | past | King | a cage | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cage=Location |
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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