The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 15
Fiordelisa wanted to reproach him for his faithlessness, and could not imagine a better way than this.
Who acts: Fiordelisa · What happens: want, reproach, not imagine · To what, where: King, better way
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiordelisa), 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 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 reproach | mark |
| 4 | reproach | reproach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reproach | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 faithlessness | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 faithlessness | nmod:poss |
| 8 | faithlessness | faithlessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reproach | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 imagine | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 imagine | cc |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 imagine | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 imagine | advmod |
| 13 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 imagine | obj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 this | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 way | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Fiordelisa | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reproach not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fiordelisa not said here | King | for King's faithlessness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for faithlessness=Attribute | |||
| 3 | not imagine | could | Fiordelisa not said here | a better way | than this | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot way=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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