The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 99
The fairy Tulip, who, in spite of her anger, was very soft-hearted, was touched at their distress, and flew quickly to their help.
Who acts: fairy Tulip, doe, Tulip · What happens: be, touch, fly, spite, anger, distress · To what, where: fairy Tulip, distress, anger
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 Tulip, doe, Tulip), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tulip | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tulip | amod |
| 3 | Tulip | Tulip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hearted | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 hearted | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spite | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 spite | case |
| 8 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hearted | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 anger | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 anger | nmod:poss |
| 11 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spite | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spite | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hearted | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 hearted | advmod |
| 15 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hearted | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 soft | punct |
| 17 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tulip | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tulip | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 touched | aux:pass |
| 20 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 distress | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 distress | nmod:poss |
| 23 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 touched | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flew | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 flew | cc |
| 26 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 touched | conj |
| 27 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 26 flew | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 help | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 help | nmod:poss |
| 30 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flew | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fairy Tulip | hearted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | past · passive | the fairy Tulip | Tulip's distress | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | to Tulip's help result; quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to help=Result | |||||
| 4 | spite | doe's anger | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | anger | doe | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | distress | Tulip | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | help | Tulip | nom help «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 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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