The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 37
As for Fiordelisa, she thought the King must have a very hard heart if he could hear how she grieved and yet pay her no attention.
Who acts: girl, King · What happens: think, have, hear, grieve, pay, attend · To what, where: hard heart, attention · 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 (girl, 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 Fiordelisa | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fiordelisa | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 heart | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 hard | advmod |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heart | amod |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 hear | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hear | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hear | aux |
| 18 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | advcl |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 grieved | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grieved | nsubj |
| 21 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hear | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pay | cc |
| 23 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 24 pay | advmod |
| 24 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 grieved | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 attention | nmod:poss |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 attention | det |
| 27 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pay | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | girl | as Fiordelisa | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | must | the King | a hard heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hear a condition, not said to happen | could | King | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | grieve | past | girl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | pay | infinitive | girl not said here | girl's attention | yet | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | |||
| 6 | attend | girl | nom attention «cognition 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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