The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 91

‘Happy roses,’ she thought to herself, ‘they have only to blossom in the sunshine and be admired, and there is nobody to be unkind to them.’

Who acts: Happy roses, roses, nobody · What happens: think, have, blossom, admire, be · To what, where: Princess, sunshine, roses

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Happy roses, roses, nobody), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 roses	punct
2	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 roses	amod
3	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thought	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 roses	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 roses	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 herself	case
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 thought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	conj
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 blossom	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 blossom	mark
16	blossom	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 sunshine	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sunshine	det
19	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blossom	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 admired	cc
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 admired	aux:pass
22	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 blossom	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 is	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 is	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 is	expl
26	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	parataxis
27	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 is	nsubj
28	to	to	PART	_	30 unkind	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 unkind	cop
30	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 nobody	acl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 unkind	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 is	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Happy roses	Princess			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	roses = rose				tree rules
3	blossom	to-infinitive	roses = rose not said here		the sunshine		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location
4	admire	infinitive · passive	roses = rose not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»
5	be	present	nobody		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	roses = rose		unkind 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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