The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 81

‘How delightful,’ thought she to herself, ‘to possess a fairy cow!

Who acts: delightful · What happens: think, possess · To what, where: Maie, fairy cow

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (delightful), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 delightful	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 delightful	advmod
3	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thought	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 delightful	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 delightful	punct
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 herself	case
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 thought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 possess	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 possess	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 possess	mark
13	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thought	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cow	det
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cow	compound
16	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 possess	obj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	delightful	Maie	Maie				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
2	possess	to-infinitive	delightful not said here	a fairy cow					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cow=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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