The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 193

Then there were feasts and fireworks in every street in the town, and early the next morning the Fairy, who had been all over the world in the night, brought back with her, in her flying chariot, the most handsome and good-tempered Prince she could find anywhere.

Who acts: feasts, Fairy · What happens: be, bring back, fly, temper, find · To what, where: street, world, flying chariot, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feasts, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 were	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fireworks	cc
6	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feasts	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 street	det
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 were	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 town	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 street	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 brought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 brought	cc
15	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 morning	amod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 morning	det
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 morning	amod
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brought	obl:unmarked
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Fairy	det
20	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 brought	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 world	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 world	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 world	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 world	cop
25	all	all	ADV	_	28 world	advmod
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 world	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Fairy	appos
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 night	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 world	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Fairy	punct
33	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 were	conj
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 brought	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 brought	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 chariot	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 chariot	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 chariot	nmod:poss
40	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 chariot	amod
41	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brought	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 handsome	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 handsome	det
44	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	45 handsome	advmod
45	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 chariot	amod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 tempered	cc
47	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 tempered	amod
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 good	punct
49	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 handsome	conj
50	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 tempered	obj
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 find	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 find	aux
53	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 tempered	parataxis
54	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	53 find	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	feasts and fireworks		every street in the town; there	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location
2	is	past · perfect	the Fairy		the world	night	all property	tree rules
3	bring back	past	the Fairy		fairy's flying chariot	morning	with feast	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
4	fly	gerund						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	temper	participle	the Fairy not said here	Prince				tree rules
6	find	could	fairy				anywhere property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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