The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 9

But presently she heard voices, and peeping cautiously, she saw by the moonlight the most lovely blue bird in the world, who was talking to the Princess, while she stroked and caressed it fondly.

Who acts: Bird, lovely blue bird · What happens: hear, peep, see, talk, stroke, caress · To what, where: voices, world

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 (Bird, lovely blue bird), 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	_	4 heard	cc
2	presently	presently	ADV	_	4 heard	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 peeping	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 peeping	cc
8	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 heard	advcl
9	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	8 peeping	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
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	4 heard	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 moonlight	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moonlight	det
15	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bird	det
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 lovely	advmod
18	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bird	amod
19	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bird	amod
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 moonlight	appos
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bird	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 talking	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 talking	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 talking	aux
27	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 bird	acl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 Princess	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Princess	det
30	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 talking	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stroked	punct
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 stroked	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stroked	nsubj
34	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 caressed	cc
36	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stroked	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 caressed	obj
38	fondly	fondly	ADV	_	36 caressed	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Bird	voices	presently property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	peep	gerund	Bird not said here		cautiously property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	Bird		by the moonlight	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	talk	past · progressive	the lovely blue bird in the world		to the Princess	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to princess=Co-Agent
5	stroke	past	Bird			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	caress	past	Bird not said here	world	fondly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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