The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 94
For the Queen had disguised herself, and pulled her hair down about her eyes, that no one might know her.
Who acts: one · What happens: disguise, pull down, know · To what, where: Queen, hair
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 (one), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 Queen | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 disguised | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disguised | aux |
| 5 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 disguised | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pulled | cc |
| 9 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disguised | parataxis |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hair | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulled | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 pulled | advmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pulled | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 know | mark |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 know | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pulled | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 know | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disguised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | past · perfect | Queen | for the Queen | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme herself=Destination | ||||
| 2 | pull down | past | Queen's hair | about Queen's eyes; down property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | might | no one | hair | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=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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