The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 38
He felt as if the splendid robe had been sent him by some kind fairy, and he took care not to neglect such a precious gift.
Who acts: Prince, kind fairy · What happens: feel, send, take, care, not neglect · To what, where: splendid robe, precious gift
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, kind fairy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 sent | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 sent | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 robe | det |
| 6 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 robe | amod |
| 7 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 sent | aux:pass |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 felt | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 fairy | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 fairy | det |
| 14 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fairy | amod |
| 15 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 20 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 took | ccomp |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 neglect | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 neglect | mark |
| 23 | neglect | neglect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 care | xcomp |
| 24 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 gift | det:predet |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 gift | det |
| 26 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 gift | amod |
| 27 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 neglect | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Prince | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect · passive | some kind fairy | the splendid robe | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Prince | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | care | infinitive | Prince not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | not neglect | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | such precious gift | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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