The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 41

When the time of her punishment was at an end the beautiful yellow bird flew to Bagdad, and let herself be caught by a Fowler at the precise moment when Badi-al-Zaman was walking up and down outside his magnificent summer palace.

Who acts: time, end, Fairy, Badi · What happens: be, fly, let, catch, walk, punish · To what, where: end, Bagdad, Fairy, magnificent summer palace

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, end, Fairy, Badi), 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	10 end	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 end	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 punishment	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 punishment	nmod:poss
6	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 end	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flew	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bird	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	amod
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	amod
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flew	nsubj
15	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Bagdad	case
17	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 flew	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 let	cc
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 flew	conj
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 let	obj
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 caught	aux:pass
23	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 let	xcomp
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 Fowler	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Fowler	det
26	Fowler	fowler	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 let	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 moment	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 moment	det
29	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 moment	amod
30	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 let	obl
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	38 walking	mark
32	Badi	Badi	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 walking	nsubj
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Badi	punct
34	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Badi	flat
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Zaman	punct
36	Zaman	Zaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Badi	flat
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 walking	aux
38	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 let	advcl
39	up	up	ADV	_	38 walking	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 down	cc
41	down	down	ADV	_	39 up	conj
42	outside	outside	ADP	_	46 palace	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 palace	nmod:poss
44	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 palace	amod
45	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 palace	compound
46	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 walking	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the time of Fairy's punishment				at a end		tree rules
2	fly	past	a end		Bagdad				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Result
3	let	infinitive	a end not said here	Fairy			moment	by a Fowler	tree rules
4	catch	infinitive · passive	Fairy not said here						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»
5	walk	past · progressive	Badi			Bird's magnificent summer palace			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside palace=Trajectory
6	punish		Fairy						nom punishment «act 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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