The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 20

“‘An unhappy being who loves you hopelessly,’ replied the voice, and at the same moment the flames began to flicker and cease to burn, and I saw a fairy, whom I had known as long as I could remember, and whose ugliness had always horrified me.

Who acts: flames, Wonderful Sheep · What happens: be, love, reply, begin, flicker, cease · To what, where: you, voice, fairy, ugliness

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (flames, Wonderful Sheep), 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	_	4 unhappy	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 unhappy	punct
3	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 unhappy	det
4	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 who	cop
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 loves	nsubj
7	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unhappy	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 loves	obj
9	hopelessly	hopelessly	ADV	_	7 loves	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unhappy	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 voice	det
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 moment	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moment	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 moment	amod
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 began	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flames	det
22	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 replied	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 flicker	mark
25	flicker	flicker	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cease	cc
27	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 flicker	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 burn	mark
29	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 cease	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 saw	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 saw	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 saw	nsubj
33	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 began	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 fairy	det
35	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 saw	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 known	punct
37	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 known	nsubj:pass
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 known	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 known	aux
40	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 fairy	parataxis
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 long	advmod
42	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 known	advmod
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 remember	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 remember	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 remember	aux
46	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 long	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 horrified	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 horrified	cc
49	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	50 ugliness	nmod:poss
50	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 horrified	nsubj:pass
51	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 horrified	aux
52	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	53 horrified	advmod
53	horrified	horrify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 saw	conj
54	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 horrified	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	gerund					tree rules
2	love in a quote	present		you		hopelessly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	reply speech: assert in a quote	past		the voice			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic
4	begin in a quote	past	the flames		moment		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	flicker in a quote	to-infinitive	the flames not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cease in a quote	infinitive	the flames not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	burn in a quote	to-infinitive	the flames not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see in a quote	past	the Wonderful Sheep = sheep	a fairy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fairy=Stimulus
9	know in a quote	past · perfect · passive		a fairy		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
10	remember in a quote	could	the Wonderful Sheep = sheep				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
11	horrify in a quote	past · perfect · passive		ugliness		always property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result

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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