The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 87

“Lovely Felicia, the day has come at last when I may have the happiness of telling you how even the flowers love you and rejoice in your beauty.”

Who acts: happiness, flowers · What happens: come, have, tell, love, rejoice · To what, where: last, happiness, you, beauty · 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 (happiness, flowers), 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	_	2 Lovely	punct
2	Lovely	Lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Lovely	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl:unmarked
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Lovely	parataxis
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 come	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 have	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 happiness	det
16	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 telling	mark
18	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 happiness	acl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 telling	iobj
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 love	advmod
21	even	even	ADV	_	23 flowers	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flowers	det
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 love	nsubj
24	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 telling	ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 love	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rejoice	cc
27	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 love	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 beauty	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 beauty	nmod:poss
30	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rejoice	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Lovely	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Lovely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · perfect				last	day	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	have in a quote	may	the happiness = happiness	the happiness				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Patient
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund	the happiness not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	love in a quote	present	the flowers	you				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	rejoice in a quote	infinitive	the flowers not said here			your beauty		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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