The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 28

In this journey she saw her chance, and it was she who, invisible, sat by Cerisette, and put bad thoughts into the minds of both her and her mother.

Who acts: fairy, chance · What happens: see, be, sit, put, chance, mind · To what, where: chance, journey, bad thoughts, minds, fairy

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 (fairy, chance), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 journey	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 journey	det
3	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chance	nmod:poss
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 who	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 who	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 who	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 who	cop
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 who	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 saw	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 invisible	punct
15	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 who	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 Cerisette	case
19	Cerisette	Cerisette	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sat	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 saw	conj
23	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thoughts	amod
24	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 minds	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 minds	det
27	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 her	case
29	both	both	CCONJ	_	30 her	cc:preconj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 minds	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 mother	cc
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mother	nmod:poss
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 her	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	fairy	fairy's chance	this journey		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus
2	is a	past	chance				tree rules
3	be		chance not said here				tree rules
4	sit	past	fairy not said here			by Cerisette	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by cerisette=Location
5	put	infinitive	fairy not said here	bad thoughts	the minds of fairy		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thought=Goal
6	chance		fairy				nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent
7	mind			fairy			nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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