The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 15

But, unfortunately, while I was still with her she became seriously ill, and though she presently recovered, her beauty is entirely gone, so that she hates the very sight of herself, and is in despair.

Who acts: I, Sylvia, beauty · What happens: be, become, recover, hate, sight · To what, where: sight, despair, Sylvia

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 (I, Sylvia, beauty), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 became	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 unfortunately	punct
3	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	12 became	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 became	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 became	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 her	cop
8	still	still	ADV	_	10 her	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 I	conj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	14 ill	advmod
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 became	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gone	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gone	cc
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 recovered	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 recovered	nsubj
19	presently	presently	ADV	_	20 recovered	advmod
20	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 recovered	punct
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 beauty	nmod:poss
23	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gone	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	cop
25	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	26 gone	advmod
26	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 became	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hates	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	31 hates	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 hates	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hates	nsubj
31	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 became	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sight	det
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 sight	advmod
34	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hates	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 herself	case
36	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 sight	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 despair	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 despair	cc
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 despair	cop
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 despair	case
41	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hates	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I not said here			still	with Sylvia	tree rules
2	become	past	I				ill, unfortunately property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	recover	past	Sylvia				presently property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	Sylvia's beauty				entirely, go property	tree rules
5	hate	present	Sylvia	the sight of Sylvia				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
6	is	present			despair			tree rules
7	sight			Sylvia				nom sight «cognition 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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