The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 25
So you see that even a princess is not always happy--especially if she forgets to keep her word; and the greatest misfortunes often happen to people just as they think they have obtained their heart’s desires!
Who acts: you, princess, sight, greatest misfortunes, misfortunes, heart · What happens: see, not be, forget, not keep, happen, think · To what, where: word, misfortunes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess, sight, greatest misfortunes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 happy | mark |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 princess | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 happy | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 happy | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 happy | advmod |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 happy | advmod |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | ccomp |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgets | punct |
| 13 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 16 forgets | advmod |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 forgets | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 forgets | nsubj |
| 16 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 keep | mark |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forgets | xcomp |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 word | nmod:poss |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 happen | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 happen | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 misfortunes | det |
| 24 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 misfortunes | amod |
| 25 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 happen | nsubj |
| 26 | often | often | ADV | _ | 27 happen | advmod |
| 27 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 people | case |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 happen | obl |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 33 think | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 think | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 think | nsubj |
| 33 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 happen | advcl |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 obtained | aux |
| 36 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 think | ccomp |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 heart | nmod:poss |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 desires | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 heart | case |
| 40 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 obtained | obj |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | a princess | always, happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | forget a condition, not said to happen | present | sight | especially property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not keep | to-infinitive | sight not said here | sight's word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 5 | happen | present | the greatest misfortunes | to people; often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | present | misfortunes = misfortune | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | obtain | present · perfect · passive | misfortunes = misfortune | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | word | sight | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | desire | misfortunes's heart | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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