The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 71
She has carried off more than one Prince like this, and she will certainly have anything she takes a fancy to.”
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: carry off, have, take · To what, where: one Prince, anything, fancy to
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 carried | compound:prt |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 one | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Prince | nummod |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 carried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 15 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 16 have | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 carried | conj |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 takes | nsubj |
| 19 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 anything | acl:relcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 to | det |
| 21 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 to | amod |
| 22 | to | to | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 takes | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | present · perfect | Fairy | one Prince | like this | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | future | Fairy | anything | certainly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | present | Fairy | a fancy to | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent to=Theme |
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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