The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 69
After greeting the King and Queen, they said that as they were united in wishing to help King Charming, the Fairy Mazilla had no longer any power against him, and he might marry Fiordelisa as soon as he pleased.
Who acts: eggs, Fairy Mazilla, King · What happens: greet, say, be, wish, help, have · To what, where: King, Charming, power, Fiordelisa · 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 (eggs, Fairy Mazilla, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 greeting | mark |
| 2 | greeting | greet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 greeting | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Queen | cc |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 greeting | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 united | mark |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 united | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 united | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 united | cop |
| 14 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 wishing | mark |
| 16 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 united | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wishing | xcomp |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Charming | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 help | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Mazilla | det |
| 23 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Mazilla | compound |
| 24 | Mazilla | Mazilla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 longer | advmod |
| 27 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 had | advmod |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 power | det |
| 29 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 30 | against | against | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 marry | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 marry | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 marry | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 marry | aux |
| 36 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 37 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 marry | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADV | _ | 39 soon | advmod |
| 39 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 marry | advmod |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 pleased | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 pleased | nsubj |
| 42 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 soon | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | gerund | eggs = egg not said here | the King and Queen | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | eggs = egg | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | eggs = egg | united property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wish | gerund | eggs = egg not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | eggs = egg not said here | Charming King | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | have | past | the Fairy Mazilla | any power | against King; long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | |||
| 7 | marry | might | King | Fiordelisa | soon property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiordelisa=Patient |
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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