The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 75

These grave dancing fairies were very unlike the Grey Women, and they were glad to see the boy, and treated him kindly.

Who acts: dancing fairies, Fairies · What happens: be, see, treat · To what, where: boy

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancing fairies, Fairies), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 fairies	det
2	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dancing	amod
3	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fairies	compound
4	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Women	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Women	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	10 Women	advmod
7	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	10 Women	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Women	det
9	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Women	amod
10	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 glad	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 glad	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 glad	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 glad	cop
15	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Women	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 glad	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 treated	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 treated	cc
22	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 glad	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 treated	obj
24	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	22 treated	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Women	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	this dancing fairies			unlike the Grey Women	tree rules
2	is	past	Fairies = fairy			glad property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	Fairies = fairy not said here	the boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
4	treat	past	Fairies = fairy not said here		boy	kindly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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