The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 33

When night came Fiordelisa said all the loving words she could think of, but alas! with no better success than before, for the King slept heavily after his draught.

Who acts: night, Fiordelisa, King · What happens: come, say, think, sleep · To what, where: loving words · 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 (night, Fiordelisa, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 slept	advcl
4	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 words	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 words	det
8	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 think	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 think	aux
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 words	acl:relcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 think	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 alas	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 alas	cc
16	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	parataxis
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 alas	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 success	case
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 success	det
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 success	amod
21	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 before	case
23	before	before	ADV	_	21 success	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 slept	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 slept	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 slept	nsubj
28	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	28 slept	advmod
30	after	after	ADP	_	32 draught	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 draught	nmod:poss
32	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 slept	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	night			with no better success	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Fiordelisa	all loving words			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	think speech: other	could	Fiordelisa	all loving words not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Theme
4	sleep	past	the King		after King's draught	heavily property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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