The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 65

She would wear the beautiful dresses that came when she wished for them, and visit her neighbours, who would be dying of envy all the while, and she would be able to dance as much as she wished.

Who acts: Barbaik, beautiful dresses · What happens: wear, come, wish, visit, die, be · To what, where: beautiful dresses, neighbours, much

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbaik, beautiful dresses), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wear	aux
3	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dresses	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dresses	amod
6	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wear	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dresses	acl:relcl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 wished	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wished	nsubj
11	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wished	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 visit	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 visit	cc
16	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wear	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 neighbours	nmod:poss
18	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 visit	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dying	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 dying	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 dying	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 dying	aux
23	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 visit	advcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 envy	case
25	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dying	obl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 while	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 while	det
28	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dying	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 able	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 able	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 able	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 able	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	cop
34	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wear	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 dance	mark
36	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	xcomp
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 much	advmod
38	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dance	obj
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 wished	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 wished	nsubj
41	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 much	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wear	would	Barbaik	the beautiful dresses			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
2	come	past	the beautiful dresses				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wish	past	Barbaik			for dresses = dress	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for they=Theme
4	visit	infinitive	Barbaik not said here	Barbaik's neighbours			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Co-Agent
5	die	would · progressive			while	of envy	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of envy=Causer
6	is	would	Barbaik			able property	tree rules
7	dance	to-infinitive	Barbaik not said here	much			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location much=Theme
8	wish	past	Barbaik				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: 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 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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