The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 71
When Turritella heard what had happened she came running to the King, and when she saw Fiordelisa with him she was terribly angry, but before she could say a word the Enchanter and the Fairy changed her into a big brown owl, and she floated away out of one of the palace windows, hooting dismally.
Who acts: Turritella, Fiordelisa, Enchanter · What happens: hear, happen, come, run, see, be · To what, where: Fiordelisa, word, big brown owl · 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, Fiordelisa, Enchanter), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | advcl |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | aux |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 running | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 saw | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 18 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 angry | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 angry | cop |
| 23 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 24 angry | advmod |
| 24 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 saw | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 changed | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 changed | cc |
| 27 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 30 say | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 say | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 say | aux |
| 30 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 changed | advcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 word | det |
| 32 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 say | obj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Enchanter | det |
| 34 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 changed | nsubj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Fairy | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Fairy | det |
| 37 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Enchanter | conj |
| 38 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 changed | obj |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 owl | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 owl | det |
| 42 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 owl | amod |
| 43 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 owl | amod |
| 44 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 changed | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 floated | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 floated | cc |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 floated | nsubj |
| 48 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 49 | away | away | ADV | _ | 48 floated | advmod |
| 50 | out | out | ADP | _ | 52 one | case |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 one | case |
| 52 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 floated | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 windows | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 windows | det |
| 55 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 windows | compound |
| 56 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 one | nmod |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 hooting | punct |
| 58 | hooting | hoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 floated | advcl |
| 59 | dismally | dismally | ADV | _ | 58 hooting | advmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Turritella | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | Turritella | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | gerund | Turritella not said here | to the King result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Turritella | Fiordelisa | with King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fiordelisa=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | is | past | Fiordelisa | angry, terribly property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | could | Fiordelisa | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 8 | change | past | the Enchanter and the Fairy | Fiordelisa | into a big brown owl result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into owl=Result | |||
| 9 | float away | past | Fiordelisa | out one of the palace windows; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out one=Trajectory | ||||
| 10 | hoot | gerund | Fiordelisa not said here | dismally property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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