The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 65
Meanwhile, Queen Fiordelisa, disguised as a poor peasant girl, wearing a great straw hat that concealed her face, and carrying an old sack over her shoulder, had set out upon her weary journey, and had travelled far, sometimes by sea and sometimes by land; sometimes on foot, and sometimes on horseback, but not knowing which way to go.
Who acts: great straw hat, carrying, Turritella · What happens: disguise, wear, conceal, carry, set out, travell · To what, where: Queen, great straw hat, face, old sack, shoulder, foot
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 (great straw hat, carrying, Turritella), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Meanwhile | vocative |
| 4 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Queen | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 disguised | punct |
| 6 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Queen | acl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 10 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disguised | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wearing | punct |
| 13 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 disguised | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hat | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hat | amod |
| 16 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hat | compound |
| 17 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wearing | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 concealed | nsubj |
| 19 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hat | acl:relcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 concealed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 set | cc |
| 24 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 set | csubj:pass |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sack | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sack | amod |
| 27 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carrying | obj |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 shoulder | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 30 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carrying | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 set | punct |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 set | aux |
| 33 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Queen | parataxis |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 set | compound:prt |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 38 journey | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 journey | nmod:poss |
| 37 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 journey | amod |
| 38 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 set | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 travelled | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 travelled | cc |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 travelled | aux |
| 42 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 set | conj |
| 43 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 travelled | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 sea | punct |
| 45 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 47 sea | advmod |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 sea | case |
| 47 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 travelled | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 land | cc |
| 49 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 51 land | advmod |
| 50 | by | by | ADP | _ | 51 land | case |
| 51 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 sea | conj |
| 52 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 55 foot | punct |
| 53 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 55 foot | advmod |
| 54 | on | on | ADP | _ | 55 foot | case |
| 55 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 travelled | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 horseback | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 horseback | cc |
| 58 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 60 horseback | advmod |
| 59 | on | on | ADP | _ | 60 horseback | case |
| 60 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 foot | conj |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 knowing | punct |
| 62 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 64 knowing | cc |
| 63 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 64 knowing | advmod |
| 64 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 travelled | advcl |
| 65 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 66 way | det |
| 66 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 knowing | obj |
| 67 | to | to | PART | _ | 68 go | mark |
| 68 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 66 way | acl |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | participle | Queen not said here | as a poor peasant girl | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wear | gerund | a great straw hat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | |||||
| 3 | conceal | past | a great straw hat | Turritella's face | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | a old sack | Turritella's shoulder | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 5 | set out | past · perfect | carrying | upon Turritella's weary journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | travell | past · perfect | carrying not said here | foot and horseback | by sea and land; far property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | not know | gerund | carrying not said here | which way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | go | to-infinitive | carrying not said here | which way not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | journey | Turritella | nom journey «act 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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