The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 5
As for your daughter, I promise you that she shall be more beautiful than anyone you ever saw in your life; call her Felicia, and when she grows up give her the ring and the pot of pinks to console her for her poverty.’
Who acts: I, mother, you · What happens: promise, be, see, call, grow up, give · To what, where: you, life, Felicia, ring, mother · 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, mother, you), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 daughter | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 promise | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 promise | nsubj |
| 7 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 promise | iobj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 beautiful | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beautiful | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 beautiful | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 promise | advcl |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 anyone | case |
| 16 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 beautiful | obl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 saw | advmod |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 call | punct |
| 24 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 promise | parataxis |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Felicia | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 call | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 give | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 give | cc |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 grows | advmod |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 grows | nsubj |
| 31 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 give | advcl |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 grows | compound:prt |
| 33 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 call | conj |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 give | iobj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ring | det |
| 36 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 pot | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pot | det |
| 39 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ring | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 pinks | case |
| 41 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 pot | nmod |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 console | mark |
| 43 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obl |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 console | nmod:unmarked |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 poverty | case |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 poverty | nmod:poss |
| 47 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 promise | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | I | you | as your daughter | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | shall | mother | than anyone; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | you | your life | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | call | infinitive | mother's Felicia | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent felicia=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | grow up | present | mother | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | give | infinitive | the ring and the pot of pinks | mother | for mother's poverty; console mother obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ring=Theme for poverty=Asset |
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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