The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 6

First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you wanted more still, the Green Fairy Book was put together.

Who acts: Blue Fairy Book, you, we · What happens: be, ask, make up, want, put together · To what, where: children, Red Fairy Book, Green Fairy Book

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blue Fairy Book, you, we), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Book	det
5	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Book	amod
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Book	compound
7	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 asked	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 children	punct
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 asked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 children	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 more	case
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 asked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 made	nsubj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 asked	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 made	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Book	det
23	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Book	compound
24	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Book	compound
25	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 wanted	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wanted	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wanted	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 wanted	advmod
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 wanted	nsubj
31	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	parataxis
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 still	advmod
33	still	still	ADV	_	31 wanted	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 put	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Book	det
36	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Book	amod
37	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Book	compound
38	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 put	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 put	aux:pass
40	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 wanted	conj
41	together	together	ADV	_	40 put	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the Blue Fairy Book		there		first property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	you	children		then	for more	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make up	past	we	the Red Fairy Book				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme book=Pivot
4	want	past	you			still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	put together	past · passive		the Green Fairy Book			together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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