The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 75
‘Lovely Queen, the King whom you seek is no longer a bird.
Who acts: you, Lovely · What happens: seek, be · To what, where: bird
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 (you, Lovely), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lovely | punct |
| 2 | Lovely | Lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bird | nsubj |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lovely | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 King | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lovely | conj |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 seek | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 seek | nsubj |
| 9 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Lovely | acl:relcl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bird | cop |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 longer | advmod |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 bird | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present | you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Lovely and the King | a bird | long property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/75/