The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 97
The old Fairy, who wished to make him happy, at last hit upon a plan.
Who acts: old Fairy · What happens: wish, make · To what, where: Prince, last hit
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Fairy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fairy | amod |
| 3 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wished | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wished | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wished | nsubj |
| 6 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wished | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 make | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hit | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 hit | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hit | amod |
| 14 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 plan | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 plan | det |
| 17 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hit | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the old Fairy | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old Fairy not said here | Prince | last hit upon a plan | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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