The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 17

The King’s pages told Turritella, when she asked them, what a sobbing and sighing they had heard, and she asked Fiordelisa what it was all about.

Who acts: pages, Turritella, sobbing, King · What happens: tell, ask, sigh, hear, be, page · To what, where: Turritella, pages, Fiordelisa · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (pages, Turritella, sobbing, King), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pages	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 asked	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 asked	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sobbing	det
15	sobbing	sobbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 what	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sighing	cc
17	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 sobbing	acl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	aux
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 sighing	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 asked	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 asked	nsubj
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
25	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 asked	iobj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 asked	obj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 about	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 about	cop
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 about	advmod
30	about	about	ADV	_	26 what	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the King's pages	Turritella		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent turritella=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	past	Turritella	pages = page		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	sigh	gerund	a sobbing not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hear	past · perfect	pages = page			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	ask speech: ask	past	Turritella	Fiordelisa		tree rules
6	is	past	sobbing		about, all property	tree rules
7	page		the King			nom page «communication transitive»: 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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