The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 2
For the Fairy herself was so kind and charming that everybody loved her, and all the young princes and princesses who formed her court, were as happy as the day was long, simply because they were near her.
Who acts: everybody, princesses, young princes, day, princes · What happens: be, charm, love, form · To what, where: Fairy, court
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 (everybody, princesses, young princes, day), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 Fairy | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 3 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | obl |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 Fairy | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 kind | advmod |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 charming | cc |
| 9 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 kind | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 loved | mark |
| 11 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 charming | ccomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loved | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 happy | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 happy | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 princes | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princes | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 princes | amod |
| 19 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 happy | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 princesses | cc |
| 21 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 princes | conj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 formed | nsubj |
| 23 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 princesses | acl:relcl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 court | nmod:poss |
| 25 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 formed | iobj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 princes | punct |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 happy | cop |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 happy | advmod |
| 29 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kind | conj |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 long | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 long | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 long | cop |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 happy | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 long | punct |
| 36 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 41 her | advmod |
| 37 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 41 her | mark |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 her | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 her | cop |
| 40 | near | near | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 long | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | for the Fairy Fairy; kind property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | charm | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | love | past | everybody | Fairy | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | form | past | princesses | Fairy's court | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location court=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | all young princes and princesses | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the day | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | princes = prince | near Fairy; simply property | tree rules |
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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