The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 67
Now the fairy Girouette, who had brought up Souci, had an old friend called Grimace, the protectress of Prince Fluet.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: bring up, have, call · To what, where: fairy, old friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fairy | det |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 4 | Girouette | Girouette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fairy | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | aux |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fairy | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 brought | compound:prt |
| 10 | Souci | Souci | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fairy | punct |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 friend | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 friend | amod |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 friend | acl |
| 17 | Grimace | Grimace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 protectress | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 protectress | det |
| 20 | protectress | protectress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Grimace | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Fluet | case |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Fluet | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Fluet | Fluet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 protectress | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past · perfect · passive | the fairy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the fairy | a old friend | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a old friend not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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 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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