The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 109
I could only bring Prince Pink to the place where you were being brought up, hoping that when you grew up he might love you, and by your care be restored to his natural form.
Who acts: I, you, way, care, your · What happens: bring, bring up, hope, grow up, love, restore · To what, where: Prince Pink, place, you, natural form · 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 (I, you, way, care), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pink | compound |
| 6 | Pink | Pink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 brought | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux:pass |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 brought | aux:pass |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 brought | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hoping | punct |
| 17 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 bring | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 love | mark |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 grew | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 grew | nsubj |
| 21 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 love | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 grew | compound:prt |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 love | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 love | aux |
| 25 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hoping | ccomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 love | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 restored | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 restored | cc |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 care | case |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 care | nmod:poss |
| 31 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 restored | obl |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 restored | aux:pass |
| 33 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bring | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 form | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 form | nmod:poss |
| 36 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 form | amod |
| 37 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 restored | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | could | I | Prince Pink | the place | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pink=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 2 | bring up | past · passive | you | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | I not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grow up | past | you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | love | might | way | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | restore | infinitive · passive | your care | way's natural form | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to form=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | care | your | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | form | way | nom form «communication 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 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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