The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 40
Taking this treasure Fiordelisa once more set herself to wait in the great hall through which Turritella was sure to pass, and as she sat there one of the King’s pages came by, and said to her:
Who acts: Taking, Turritella, King · What happens: take, set, wait, be, pass, sit · To what, where: treasure, Fiordelisa, great hall, one, Turritella · 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 (Taking, Turritella, 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 set | csubj |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 treasure | det |
| 3 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 4 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 treasure | appos |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 set | advmod |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 set | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wait | mark |
| 10 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 set | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hall | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hall | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hall | amod |
| 14 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wait | obl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 sure | obl |
| 17 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sure | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sure | cop |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wait | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pass | mark |
| 21 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sure | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 came | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 came | cc |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 sat | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sat | nsubj |
| 26 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 came | advcl |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 sat | advmod |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 sat | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 pages | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 pages | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 King | case |
| 33 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 one | nmod |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | parataxis |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 came | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 came | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 said | obl |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | this treasure | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||||
| 2 | set | present | Taking | Fiordelisa | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | Taking not said here | the great hall | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Turritella | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pass | to-infinitive | Turritella not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sit | past | Turritella | one of the King's pages | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | |||
| 7 | come by | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | Turritella | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||||
| 9 | 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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