The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 107

Whereupon a fairy with whom I had quarrelled changed him into a pink, and I could do nothing to prevent it.

Who acts: I, fairy · What happens: quarrell, change, do, prevent · To what, where: way, pink, nothing, task

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 (I, fairy), 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	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	9 changed	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fairy	det
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changed	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 fairy	nmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 quarrelled	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 quarrelled	aux
8	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 whom	acl:relcl
9	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 changed	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 pink	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pink	det
13	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 changed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 do	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 changed	conj
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 do	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 prevent	mark
21	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 nothing	acl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 prevent	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	quarrell	past · perfect	I			tree rules
2	change	past	a fairy	way	into a pink result; whereupon property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into pink=Result
3	do	could	I	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	prevent	to-infinitive	I not said here	task		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=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 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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