The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 90
The Fairy godmother, who took the deepest interest in all the Queen’s concerns, and who was much pleased with the little Prince, endowed him with the power of pleasing everybody from his cradle, as well as with a wonderful ease in learning everything which could help to make him a perfectly accomplished Prince.
Who acts: Fairy godmother, power, wonderful ease, Queen · What happens: take, be, endow, please, learn, help · To what, where: deepest interest, concerns, godmother, everybody, cradle, everything
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (Fairy godmother, power, wonderful ease, Queen), 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 | 3 godmother | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 godmother | amod |
| 3 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 interest | det |
| 8 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 interest | amod |
| 9 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 concerns | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 concerns | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 concerns | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Queen | case |
| 15 | concerns | concern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 interest | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pleased | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pleased | cc |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 pleased | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pleased | cop |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 pleased | advmod |
| 21 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 took | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Prince | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Prince | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Prince | amod |
| 25 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 pleased | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 endowed | punct |
| 27 | endowed | endow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 endowed | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 power | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 power | det |
| 31 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 endowed | obl |
| 32 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 33 pleasing | mark |
| 33 | pleasing | please | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 power | acl |
| 34 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 33 pleasing | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 cradle | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 cradle | nmod:poss |
| 37 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pleasing | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 ease | punct |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 45 ease | cc |
| 40 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 as | fixed |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 as | fixed |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 ease | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 ease | det |
| 44 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 ease | amod |
| 45 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 endowed | parataxis |
| 46 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 47 learning | mark |
| 47 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 ease | acl |
| 48 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 47 learning | obj |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 help | nsubj |
| 50 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 help | aux |
| 51 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 everything | acl:relcl |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 make | mark |
| 53 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 help | xcomp |
| 54 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 make | obj |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 Prince | det |
| 56 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 57 accomplished | advmod |
| 57 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 58 Prince | amod |
| 58 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 make | xcomp |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Fairy godmother | the deepest interest | the Queen's concerns | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in concern=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | with the little Prince; pleased property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | endow | past | the Fairy godmother not said here | godmother | with the power | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with power=Theme | |||
| 4 | please | gerund | the power not said here | everybody | godmother's cradle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everybody=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | learn | gerund | a wonderful ease not said here | everything | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | ||||
| 6 | help | could | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | godmother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||||
| 8 | accomplish | participle | perfectly property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | concern | the Queen | nom concern «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 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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