The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 11

For this was a fairy, who had taken the form of a poor country woman, to see how far the civility and good manners of this pretty girl would go.

Who acts: this, fairy, civility · What happens: be, take, see, go, form · To what, where: form, poor country woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, fairy, civility), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 fairy	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fairy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fairy	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fairy	det
5	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 taken	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 taken	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fairy	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 form	det
11	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 woman	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 woman	compound
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 form	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	parataxis
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 far	advmod
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 go	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 civility	det
23	civility	civility	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 manners	cc
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 manners	amod
26	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 civility	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 girl	case
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 girl	det
29	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 girl	amod
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 manners	nmod
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 go	aux
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 see	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fairy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	this		for a fairy	tree rules
2	take	past · perfect	a fairy	the form of a poor country woman		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	would	the civility and good manners of this pretty girl		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	form			a poor country woman		nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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