The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 2
It happened that she fell ill, and when she felt that she must soon die, she sent for the King, and said, ‘If you want to marry after my death, make no one queen unless she is just as beautiful as I am, and has just such golden hair as I have.
Who acts: It, wife, you, I, my · What happens: happen, fall, feel, die, send, say · To what, where: one queen, such golden hair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, wife, you, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 fell | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 felt | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 felt | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 die | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 die | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 die | aux |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 die | advmod |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 felt | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 die | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 King | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 felt | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 make | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 make | punct |
| 28 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 want | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 want | nsubj |
| 30 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 make | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 marry | mark |
| 32 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 want | xcomp |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 death | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 death | nmod:poss |
| 35 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 marry | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 want | punct |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | ccomp |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 queen | det |
| 39 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 queen | compound |
| 40 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 make | obj |
| 41 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 46 beautiful | mark |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 beautiful | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 beautiful | cop |
| 44 | just | just | ADV | _ | 46 beautiful | advmod |
| 45 | as | as | ADV | _ | 46 beautiful | advmod |
| 46 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 make | advcl |
| 47 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 49 am | mark |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 am | nsubj |
| 49 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 beautiful | advcl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 has | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 has | cc |
| 52 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 53 | just | just | ADV | _ | 56 hair | advmod |
| 54 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 hair | amod |
| 55 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 hair | amod |
| 56 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 has | obj |
| 57 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 59 have | mark |
| 58 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 59 have | nsubj |
| 59 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 has | advcl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | wife | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | wife | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die | must | wife | soon property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | send | past | wife | for the King | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | wife not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | after my death | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 9 | make | present | no one queen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset queen=Product | |||||
| 10 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | wife | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | have | present | such golden hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | |||||
| 12 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 13 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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