The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 81
Fiordelisa tried a thousand times, and scrambled and slipped, but always in the end found herself exactly where she started from.
Who acts: Fiordelisa, sister · What happens: try, scramble, slip, find, start · To what, where: sister, end
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 (Fiordelisa, sister), 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 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thousand | det |
| 4 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tried | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scrambled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 scrambled | cc |
| 8 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slipped | cc |
| 10 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 scrambled | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 found | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 found | obj |
| 19 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 20 where | advmod |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 started | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 started | nsubj |
| 22 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 started | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Fiordelisa | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | scramble | past | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | slip | past | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | find | past | Fiordelisa not said here | sister | in the end | always property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | ||
| 5 | start | past | sister | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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