The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 45
The fairy told Serpentine that she was quite satisfied with her conduct, and made herself very agreeable to Saphir, whom she presented to the lady she had brought with her, explaining that the lady was no other than his Aunt Aglantine, widow of Diamantino.
Who acts: fairy, Serpentine, lady · What happens: tell, be, make, present, bring, explain · To what, where: Serpentine, lady · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, Serpentine, lady), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Serpentine | Serpentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 satisfied | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 satisfied | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 satisfied | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 satisfied | advmod |
| 9 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | ccomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 conduct | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 12 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 satisfied | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 agreeable | advmod |
| 18 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 made | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Saphir | case |
| 20 | Saphir | Saphir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 agreeable | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 presented | punct |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 presented | obj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 presented | nsubj |
| 24 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 lady | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lady | det |
| 27 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 presented | obl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 brought | aux |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 lady | acl:relcl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 explaining | punct |
| 34 | explaining | explain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 presented | advcl |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 other | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 lady | det |
| 37 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 other | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 other | cop |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 other | det |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 explaining | ccomp |
| 41 | than | than | ADP | _ | 43 Aunt | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 Aunt | nmod:poss |
| 43 | Aunt | Aunt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 other | obl |
| 44 | Aglantine | Aglantine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Aunt | flat |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 widow | punct |
| 46 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 Aunt | appos |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Diamantino | case |
| 48 | Diamantino | Diamantino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 widow | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the fairy | Serpentine | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent serpentine=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Serpentine | with Serpentine's conduct; satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Serpentine | agreeable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product | ||||
| 4 | present | past | Serpentine | the lady | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to lady=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect | Serpentine | the lady not said here | with Saphir | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lady=Destination | |||
| 6 | explain speech: assert | gerund | Serpentine not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | past | the lady | than hand's Aunt; other property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | conduct | Serpentine | nom conduct «act 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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