The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 103
“Ah!” she cried, “my pink, my dear son, what a happiness to see you restored to your natural shape by Felicia’s aid!”
Who acts: Queen · What happens: cry, see, restore · To what, where: dear son, you, happiness, natural shape · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pink | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pink | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pink | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cried | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 son | amod |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 what | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 son | appos |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 happiness | det |
| 18 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 what | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 happiness | acl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 happiness | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 shape | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 shape | nmod:poss |
| 25 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shape | amod |
| 26 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 restored | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 aid | case |
| 28 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 aid | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Felicia | case |
| 30 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 restored | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Queen | my dear son | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | restore in a quote | participle | a happiness not said here | your natural shape | by Felicia's aid | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to shape=Recipient |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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