The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 86

But nobody had ever been able to reach the top of the hill, and when they saw Fiordelisa standing there, they raised a terrible outcry, declaring that if she set foot upon their glass she would break it to pieces.

Who acts: nobody, pilgrims, Fiordelisa, sister · What happens: be, reach, see, stand, raise, declare · To what, where: top, Fiordelisa, terrible outcry, foot, glass

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 (nobody, pilgrims, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 able	cc
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 able	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 able	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 able	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reach	mark
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 top	det
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reach	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 top	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 saw	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 able	parataxis
19	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
20	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 saw	xcomp
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 standing	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 raised	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 raised	nsubj
24	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 outcry	det
26	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 outcry	amod
27	outcry	outcry	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 raised	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 declaring	punct
29	declaring	declare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 raised	advcl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 break	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 set	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 set	nsubj
33	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 break	advcl
34	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	obj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 glass	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 glass	nmod:poss
37	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	obl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 break	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 break	aux
40	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 declaring	advcl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 break	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 pieces	case
43	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 break	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	nobody			ever	able property	tree rules
2	reach	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	the top of the hill				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme
3	see	past	pilgrims = pilgrim	Fiordelisa				tree rules
4	stand	gerund	Fiordelisa not said here		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	raise	past	pilgrims = pilgrim	a terrible outcry				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outcry=Theme
6	declare speech: other	gerund	pilgrims = pilgrim not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	set a condition, not said to happen	past	sister	foot	pilgrims's glass			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon glass=Destination
8	break	would	sister	top			to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to piece=Result

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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