The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 56

Then she took Gon in her arms, and praised and caressed him, and saw that he had the nicest bits to eat, and the softest mats to lie on; and he would have had nothing in the world to wish for if only he could have seen Koma again.

Who acts: Princess, Gon · What happens: take, praise, caress, see, have, eat · To what, where: Gon, arms, nicest bits, nothing, world, Koma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (Princess, Gon), 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 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Gon	Gon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 arms	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arms	nmod:poss
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 praised	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 praised	cc
10	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 caressed	cc
12	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 praised	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 caressed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bits	det
21	nicest	nice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 bits	amod
22	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 eat	mark
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bits	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mats	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 mats	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mats	det
28	softest	soft	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 mats	amod
29	mats	mat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 lie	mark
31	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	advcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	31 lie	compound:prt
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 had	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 had	aux
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 had	aux
38	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 took	parataxis
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	38 had	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 world	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 world	det
42	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 nothing	nmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 wish	mark
44	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 nothing	acl
45	for	for	SCONJ	_	51 seen	mark
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 seen	mark
47	only	only	ADV	_	51 seen	advmod
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 seen	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 seen	aux
50	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 seen	aux
51	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 wish	ccomp
52	Koma	Koma	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 seen	obj
53	again	again	ADV	_	51 seen	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	Princess	Gon	Princess's arms	then	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gon=Value in arm=Location
2	praise	past	Princess not said here				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	caress	past	Princess not said here	Gon			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer
4	see	past	Princess not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	have	past	Gon	the nicest bits			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
6	eat	to-infinitive	Gon not said here	the nicest bits not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	lie on	to-infinitive	Princess not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	have	would · perfect	Gon	nothing	the world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
9	wish	to-infinitive	Gon not said here	nothing not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	see a condition, not said to happen	could · perfect	Gon	Koma		again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer koma=Stimulus

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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