The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 107
Now the fairy Girouette had a kind heart, but she was a very trying person to live with, for she never knew her own mind for two minutes together, and as she was the sole ruler at Court till the prince grew up everything was always at sixes and sevens.
Who acts: fairy, prince, everything · What happens: have, try, be, live, not know, grow up · To what, where: kind heart, trying person, own mind, sole ruler, Court, sixes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, prince, everything), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fairy | det |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | Girouette | Girouette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fairy | appos |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heart | amod |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 person | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 person | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 person | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 person | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 person | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 trying | advmod |
| 15 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 person | amod |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 person | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 live | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knew | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 knew | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 knew | advmod |
| 24 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 live | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mind | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 mind | amod |
| 27 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knew | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 minutes | case |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 minutes | nummod |
| 30 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 together | obl |
| 31 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 knew | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ruler | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 ruler | cc |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 ruler | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ruler | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 ruler | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ruler | det |
| 38 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ruler | amod |
| 39 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | parataxis |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 Court | case |
| 41 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ruler | nmod |
| 42 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 45 grew | mark |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 prince | det |
| 44 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 grew | nsubj |
| 45 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 ruler | advcl |
| 46 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 grew | compound:prt |
| 47 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 51 sixes | nsubj |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 sixes | cop |
| 49 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 51 sixes | advmod |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 51 sixes | case |
| 51 | sixes | six | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 grew | parataxis |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 sevens | cc |
| 53 | sevens | seven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 sixes | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the fairy | a kind heart | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||
| 2 | try | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | fairy | a trying person | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | the fairy not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not know | past | fairy | fairy's own mind | together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mind=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | is a | past | fairy | the sole ruler | Court | tree rules | |||
| 7 | grow up | past | the prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is | past | everything | sixes and sevens | always property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | mind | fairy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 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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