The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 1

It generally happens that people’s surroundings reflect more or less accurately their minds and dispositions, so perhaps that is why the Flower Fairy lived in a lovely palace, with the most delightful garden you can imagine, full of flowers, and trees, and fountains, and fish-ponds, and everything nice.

Who acts: It, surroundings, that, Flower Fairy, you · What happens: happen, reflect, be, live, imagine, mind · To what, where: trees, minds, lovely palace, delightful garden

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, surroundings, that, Flower 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happens	nsubj
2	generally	generally	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 reflect	mark
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 surroundings	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 people	case
7	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 reflect	nsubj
8	reflect	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happens	advcl
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 reflect	advmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 less	cc
11	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 more	conj
12	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 reflect	advmod
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 minds	nmod:poss
14	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reflect	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dispositions	cc
16	dispositions	disposition	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 minds	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 why	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 why	advmod
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	22 why	advmod
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 why	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 why	cop
22	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 happens	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Fairy	det
24	Flower	Flower	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Fairy	compound
25	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 lived	nsubj
26	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 why	advcl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 palace	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 palace	det
29	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 palace	amod
30	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lived	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 garden	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	36 garden	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 garden	det
34	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	35 delightful	advmod
35	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 garden	amod
36	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lived	conj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 imagine	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 imagine	aux
39	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 garden	acl:relcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 full	punct
41	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 garden	parataxis
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 flowers	case
43	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 full	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 trees	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 trees	cc
46	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happens	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fountains	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 fountains	cc
49	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 trees	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 ponds	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 ponds	cc
52	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 ponds	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 fish	punct
54	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 trees	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 nice	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 nice	cc
57	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	58 nice	nsubj
58	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happens	parataxis
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	present	It	trees and fountains and fish ponds		generally property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reflect	present	people's surroundings	surroundings's minds and dispositions		accurately property	tree rules
3	is	present	that			perhaps, why property	tree rules
4	live	past	the Flower Fairy		a lovely palace		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
5	imagine	can	you	the delightful garden not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot garden=Theme
6	mind		surroundings				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 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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