The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 57
‘Find out the little kitchen-maid, and she will explain everything.’
Who acts: you, Fiordelisa · What happens: find out, explain · To what, where: little kitchen maid, everything
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 (you, Fiordelisa), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Find | punct |
| 2 | Find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 Find | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maid | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 maid | amod |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maid | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 kitchen | punct |
| 8 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 explain | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 explain | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 explain | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 explain | aux |
| 13 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Find | conj |
| 14 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 explain | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Find | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | imperative | you not said here | the little kitchen maid | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Topic | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | future | Fiordelisa | everything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |
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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