The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 63
Then the Fairy dressed Turritella in a magnificent gold and silver robe, and they mounted together upon a flying Dragon, and very soon reached King Charming’s palace, where he, too, had just been brought by his faithful friend the Enchanter.
Who acts: Fairy, Fairies, faithful friend · What happens: dress, mount, fly, reach, bring · To what, where: Turritella, magnificent gold, palace, King
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 (Fairy, Fairies, faithful friend), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 3 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dressed | nsubj |
| 4 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dressed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gold | det |
| 8 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gold | amod |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dressed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 robe | cc |
| 11 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 robe | compound |
| 12 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gold | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mounted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mounted | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mounted | nsubj |
| 16 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dressed | conj |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 mounted | advmod |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 Dragon | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Dragon | det |
| 20 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 Dragon | amod |
| 21 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 mounted | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reached | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 reached | cc |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 soon | advmod |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 reached | advmod |
| 26 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dressed | conj |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Charming | nmod:desc |
| 28 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 palace | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Charming | case |
| 30 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reached | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 brought | punct |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 brought | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 he | punct |
| 35 | too | too | ADV | _ | 37 had | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 too | punct |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 brought | aux |
| 38 | just | just | ADV | _ | 40 brought | advmod |
| 39 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 brought | aux:pass |
| 40 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 palace | acl:relcl |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 friend | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 friend | nmod:poss |
| 43 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 friend | amod |
| 44 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 brought | obl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Enchanter | det |
| 46 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 friend | appos |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | the Fairy | Turritella | a magnificent gold and silver robe | then | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turritella=Patient | ||
| 2 | mount | past | Fairies = fairy | upon a flying Dragon; together property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon dragon=Destination | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | reach | past | the Fairy not said here | Charming King's palace | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect · passive | King's faithful friend | King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination |
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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