The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 4
Turritella, who really loved King Charming as much as she could love anybody, and was always delighted to get a chance of talking to him, now showed him the bracelets, asking how much he considered them worth.
Who acts: Turritella, chance, Charming · What happens: love, be, get, talk, show, ask · To what, where: Charming, anybody, chance, bracelets, much · 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 (Turritella, chance, Charming), 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 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 loved | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 loved | advmod |
| 5 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Charming | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 loved | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 loved | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 love | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 love | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 love | aux |
| 13 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 much | acl |
| 14 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 love | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 delighted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 delighted | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 delighted | cop |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 delighted | advmod |
| 19 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 loved | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 get | mark |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 delighted | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 chance | det |
| 23 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obj |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 talking | mark |
| 25 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 chance | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 talking | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 showed | punct |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 showed | advmod |
| 30 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 loved | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 showed | iobj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bracelets | det |
| 33 | bracelets | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 showed | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 asking | punct |
| 35 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 showed | advcl |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 much | advmod |
| 37 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 considered | obj |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 considered | nsubj |
| 39 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 asking | ccomp |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 considered | obj |
| 41 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 considered | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Turritella | Charming King | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | could | Turritella | anybody | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anybody=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Turritella not said here | always, delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Turritella not said here | a chance | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | talk | gerund | a chance not said here | Charming | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | show | past | Turritella not said here | the bracelets | Charming | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bracelet=Topic | ||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Turritella not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | consider | past | Charming | much | worth property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent much=Theme they=Attribute |
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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