The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 60
Everything that a baby could possibly wear or play with was there, and besides, they had other and more precious gifts to give her, which only children who have fairies for godmothers can ever hope to possess.
Who acts: Everything, babies, precious gifts, children · What happens: wear, play, be, have, give, hope · To what, where: that, gift, fairies
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, babies, precious gifts, children), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 wear | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wear | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wear | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 wear | aux |
| 6 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 7 wear | advmod |
| 7 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 play | cc |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wear | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 there | case |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 there | cop |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 play | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 15 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 18 had | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 besides | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wear | advcl |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 had | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gifts | cc |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 precious | advmod |
| 22 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gifts | amod |
| 23 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 hope | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 give | mark |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 gifts | acl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 children | punct |
| 28 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 30 children | det |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 children | advmod |
| 30 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gifts | conj |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 have | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 children | acl:relcl |
| 33 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 have | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 godmothers | case |
| 35 | godmothers | godmother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 have | obl |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 hope | aux |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 hope | advmod |
| 38 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | ccomp |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 possess | mark |
| 40 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 hope | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | could | Everything | that | possibly property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source | |||
| 2 | play | infinitive | Everything not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | past | babies = baby | other property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give | to-infinitive | precious gifts and which children not said here | gift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | present | which children | fairies | for godmothers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Patient | |||
| 7 | hope | can | precious gifts and which children | ever | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 8 | possess not said to happen | to-infinitive | precious gifts and which children not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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