The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 70
The King’s joy may be imagined, and as soon as it was day the news was spread through the palace, and everybody who saw Fiordelisa loved her directly.
Who acts: joy, everybody, King · What happens: imagine, be, spread, see, love, joy · To what, where: joy, news, palace, Fiordelisa
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 (joy, everybody, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 imagined | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 imagined | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 imagined | aux:pass |
| 7 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spread | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spread | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 spread | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 day | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 day | cop |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spread | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 news | det |
| 17 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spread | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 spread | aux:pass |
| 19 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 imagined | conj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spread | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 loved | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 loved | cc |
| 25 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 loved | nsubj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 everybody | acl:relcl |
| 28 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 saw | obj |
| 29 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 imagined | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 loved | obj |
| 31 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 29 loved | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may · passive | the King's joy | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | joy | as day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spread | past · passive | the news | the palace | soon property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme through palace=Destination | |||
| 4 | see | past | Fiordelisa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fiordelisa=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | love | past | everybody | Fiordelisa | directly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | joy | the King | nom joy «feeling 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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