The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 97
Had she come all this weary way only to find Turritella had succeeded in making King Charming forget her?
Who acts: hair, Turritella, Charming · What happens: have, come, find, succeed, make, forget · To what, where: weary way, Charming, hair · 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 (hair, Turritella, Charming), 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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Had | xcomp |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 way | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 way | det |
| 6 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 find | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 succeeded | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 succeeded | aux |
| 13 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 find | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 making | mark |
| 15 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 succeeded | advcl |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Charming | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 making | obj |
| 18 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 making | xcomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 forget | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | hair | all weary way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | hair not said here | all weary way not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | succeed | past · perfect | Turritella | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund | Turritella not said here | Charming King | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | forget | infinitive | Charming King not said here | hair | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/97/