The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 73
She shall be as happy as the day is long, and we will give her everything that is worth having in fairy-land, but you must not see her again until she is married.’
Who acts: Madam, day, we, you · What happens: be, give, have, not see, marry · To what, where: everything, fairy land, Madam
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, day, we, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happy | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 long | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 long | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 long | cop |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 happy | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happy | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 everything | nmod:poss |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 give | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 worth | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 worth | cop |
| 20 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 everything | acl:relcl |
| 21 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 worth | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 23 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 land | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 fairy | punct |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 having | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 see | cc |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 see | nsubj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 see | advmod |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happy | conj |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 see | obj |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 see | advmod |
| 34 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 37 married | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 married | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 married | aux:pass |
| 37 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 see | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | Madam | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the day | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | future | we | everything | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | worth property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have | gerund | fairy land | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not see | must | you | Madam | again | tree rules | |||
| 7 | marry | present · passive | Madam | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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