The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 101

To think that by-and-by she would cease to be a white doe--indeed, that she would at once cease to be one during the night--was for the present joy enough for Desiree, and she skipped about on the grass in the prettiest manner.

Who acts: doe · What happens: think, cease, be, skip · To what, where: cease, white doe, one, grass · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doe), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 think	mark
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 cease	mark
4	by	by	ADP	_	3 that	fixed
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 by	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 by	cc
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 by	punct
8	by	by	ADP	_	4 by	fixed
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cease	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 cease	aux
11	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	16 doe	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 doe	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 doe	det
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 doe	amod
16	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cease	obj
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 indeed	punct
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 doe	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cease	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 would	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 would	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 cease	aux
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 once	case
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 would	obl
25	cease	cease	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cease	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	28 one	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 one	cop
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 cease	nmod
29	during	during	ADP	_	31 night	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 one	nmod
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 joy	punct
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 joy	cop
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 joy	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 joy	det
36	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 joy	amod
37	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	obl
38	enough	enough	ADV	_	37 joy	advmod
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 Desiree	case
40	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 joy	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 skipped	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 skipped	cc
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 skipped	nsubj
44	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 think	conj
45	about	about	ADV	_	44 skipped	advmod
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 grass	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 grass	det
48	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 skipped	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	52 manner	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 manner	det
51	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	52 manner	amod
52	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 skipped	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	to-infinitive						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cease	would	doe	cease				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a	to-infinitive		a white doe			indeed property	tree rules
4	is a	to-infinitive		one		night		tree rules
5	is	past					for the present joy; for Desiree; enough property	tree rules
6	skip	past	doe		the grass		in the prettiest manner; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Trajectory

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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