The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 89
Here the Queen got out of the chariot, and kissed the doves and thanked them, and then with a beating heart she walked into the town, asking the people she met where she could see the King.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: get out, kiss, thank, walk, ask, meet · To what, where: chariot, doves, town, people, King
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), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 chariot | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chariot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chariot | det |
| 8 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kissed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kissed | cc |
| 11 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 doves | det |
| 13 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kissed | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thanked | cc |
| 15 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kissed | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thanked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 walked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 walked | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 walked | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 heart | det |
| 22 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heart | compound |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 walked | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 walked | nsubj |
| 25 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 town | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 town | det |
| 28 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 walked | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 asking | punct |
| 30 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 walked | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 people | det |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 asking | obj |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 met | nsubj |
| 34 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 people | acl:relcl |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 see | advmod |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 see | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 see | aux |
| 38 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 met | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 King | det |
| 40 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 see | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past | the Queen | the chariot | here | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | the doves | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | doves = dove | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 4 | walk | past | Queen | then | into the town result; with a beating heart | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into town=Result | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Queen not said here | the people | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | meet | past | Queen | the people not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | see | could | Queen | the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |
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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