The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 99
As soon as it was light she hastened to the palace, and after being sent away fifty times by the guards, she got in at last, and saw the thrones set in the great hall for the King and Turritella, who was already looked upon as Queen.
Who acts: step, Turritella, guards, thrones · What happens: be, hasten, send away, get in, see, set · To what, where: palace, last, great hall, King · 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 (step, Turritella, guards, thrones), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 hastened | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 light | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 light | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 light | cop |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hastened | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hastened | nsubj |
| 8 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hastened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sent | cc |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 sent | mark |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sent | aux:pass |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hastened | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 sent | advmod |
| 18 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 times | nummod |
| 19 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 guards | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 guards | det |
| 22 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sent | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 got | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hastened | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 got | advmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 last | case |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 got | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saw | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 saw | cc |
| 31 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hastened | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 thrones | det |
| 33 | thrones | throne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 set | nsubj |
| 34 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 saw | ccomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 hall | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 hall | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 hall | amod |
| 38 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 set | obl |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 King | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 King | det |
| 41 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 hall | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 Turritella | cc |
| 43 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 King | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 looked | punct |
| 45 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 looked | aux:pass |
| 47 | already | already | ADV | _ | 48 looked | advmod |
| 48 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 King | acl:relcl |
| 49 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 51 Queen | case |
| 50 | as | as | ADP | _ | 51 Queen | case |
| 51 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 looked | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | step | as light | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hasten | past | Turritella | the palace | soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 3 | send away | gerund · passive | the guards | time | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | get in | past | Turritella | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Turritella not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | set | present | the thrones | the great hall for the King and Turritella | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hall=Destination | ||||
| 7 | look | past · passive | the King and Turritella | upon Queen | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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