The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 27
However, she entertained the fairies splendidly, and gave them beautiful ribbons, of which they are very fond, in addition to the other presents.
Who acts: Carabosse, gifts · What happens: entertain, give, be · To what, where: fairies, beautiful ribbons, gifts
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carabosse, gifts), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 entertained | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entertained | nsubj |
| 4 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairies | det |
| 6 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 entertained | obj |
| 7 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 4 entertained | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entertained | parataxis |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ribbons | amod |
| 13 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fond | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fond | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fond | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fond | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 fond | advmod |
| 20 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gave | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 addition | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 addition | case |
| 23 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fond | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 presents | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 presents | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 presents | amod |
| 27 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 addition | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entertained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entertain | past | Carabosse | the fairies | however, splendidly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fairy=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | give | past | beautiful ribbons | gifts = gift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient ribbon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | gifts = gift | fond property | tree rules |
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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