The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 73

The Queen told her willingly all that had happened, and how she was seeking the Blue Bird.

Who acts: Queen, that · What happens: tell, happen, seek · To what, where: woman, Blue Bird · 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, that), 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 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	6 all	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 happened	det:predet
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 happened	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happened	aux
9	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seeking	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seeking	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 seeking	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seeking	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seeking	aux
15	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Bird	det
17	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Bird	amod
18	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 seeking	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Queen		woman	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect	that			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seek	past · progressive	Queen	the Blue Bird		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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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