The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 80
The Fairy of the Desert, quite taken in by these words, resolved at once to transport the Prince to a pleasanter place.
Who acts: words · What happens: take in, resolve, transport · To what, where: Fairy, words, Prince, pleasanter place
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 (words), 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 | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Desert | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Desert | det |
| 5 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fairy | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 taken | advmod |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 taken | compound:prt |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taken | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 resolved | punct |
| 14 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 words | acl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 resolved | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 transport | mark |
| 18 | transport | transport | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 resolved | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 transport | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 23 | pleasanter | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 place | amod |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 transport | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in | participle · passive | this words | the Fairy of the Desert | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | resolve | participle | this words not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | transport | to-infinitive | the Prince | a pleasanter place | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme to place=Destination |
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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