The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 11

‘You sent me, madam,’ answered Sylvia, ‘to the Court of Iris, on whom you had bestowed the gift of beauty.

Who acts: You · What happens: send, answer, bestow, gift · To what, where: me, Sylvia, gift, beauty

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 (You), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sent	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 madam	punct
6	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
10	Sylvia	Sylvia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Court	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Court	punct
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Court	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Court	det
15	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Iris	case
17	Iris	Iris	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Court	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whom	punct
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 whom	case
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 answered	obl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 bestowed	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bestowed	aux
23	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 whom	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gift	det
25	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bestowed	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 beauty	case
27	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gift	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	You	me		madam obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	You not said here		Sylvia		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sylvia=Eventuality
3	bestow	past · perfect	you	the gift of beauty			tree rules
4	gift			beauty			nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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