The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 87
The Queen, not knowing what to do, for she saw it would be dangerous to try to go down, broke the second egg, and out came a chariot, drawn by two white doves, and Fiordelisa got into it, and was floated softly away.
Who acts: Queen, it, Fiordelisa · What happens: not know, do, see, be, try, go down · To what, where: second egg, chariot, top · 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, it, Fiordelisa), 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 | 23 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knowing | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 knowing | advmod |
| 5 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Queen | acl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 do | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knowing | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 saw | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dangerous | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 dangerous | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dangerous | cop |
| 16 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 try | mark |
| 18 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dangerous | csubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 try | xcomp |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 23 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 egg | det |
| 25 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 egg | amod |
| 26 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 broke | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 came | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 came | cc |
| 29 | out | out | ADV | _ | 30 came | advmod |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 broke | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 chariot | det |
| 32 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 came | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 drawn | punct |
| 34 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 chariot | acl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 doves | case |
| 36 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 doves | nummod |
| 37 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 doves | amod |
| 38 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 drawn | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 got | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 got | cc |
| 41 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 got | nsubj |
| 42 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 came | conj |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 got | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 floated | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 floated | cc |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 floated | aux:pass |
| 48 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 broke | conj |
| 49 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 50 away | advmod |
| 50 | away | away | ADV | _ | 48 floated | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | the Queen not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | would | it | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | try | to-infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | go down not said to happen | to-infinitive | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | break | past | the Queen | the second egg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient | ||||
| 8 | come | past | a chariot | out property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chariot=Theme | ||||
| 9 | draw | participle | a chariot not said here | by two white doves | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | get | past | Fiordelisa | top | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | ||||
| 11 | float | past · passive | the Queen not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V» |
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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