The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 21
Some time passed in all the usual delights of the Flower-Fairy’s palace, and then she sent for Sylvia again, and told her she was to stay for a little while with the Princess Daphne, and accordingly the butterflies whisked her off, and set her down in quite a strange kingdom.
Who acts: time, Fairy, butterflies, palace · What happens: pass, send, tell, be, whisk off, set down · To what, where: usual delights, Fairy, strange kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (time, Fairy, butterflies, palace), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 delights | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 delights | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 delights | det |
| 7 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 delights | amod |
| 8 | delights | delight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fairy | det |
| 11 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fairy | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Flower | punct |
| 13 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Fairy | case |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 delights | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sent | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 sent | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sent | nsubj |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Sylvia | case |
| 22 | Sylvia | Sylvia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | obl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 sent | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 told | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 told | cc |
| 26 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sent | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 told | iobj |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stay | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 stay | cop |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 stay | mark |
| 31 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 told | ccomp |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 while | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 while | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 while | amod |
| 35 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stay | obl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 Daphne | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Daphne | det |
| 38 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Daphne | compound |
| 39 | Daphne | Daphne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 while | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 whisked | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 whisked | cc |
| 42 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 45 whisked | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 butterflies | det |
| 44 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 whisked | nsubj |
| 45 | whisked | whisk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 told | conj |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 whisked | obj |
| 47 | off | off | ADP | _ | 45 whisked | compound:prt |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 set | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 set | cc |
| 50 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 set | obj |
| 52 | down | down | ADP | _ | 50 set | compound:prt |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 kingdom | case |
| 54 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 57 kingdom | det:predet |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 kingdom | det |
| 56 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 kingdom | amod |
| 57 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 set | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | some time | all usual delights of the Flower Fairy's palace | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in delight=Location | ||||
| 2 | send | past | Fairy | then; again | for Sylvia | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Fairy not said here | Fairy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | past | Fairy | while | stay property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | whisk off | past | the butterflies | Fairy | accordingly property | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 6 | set down | past | some time not said here | Fairy | quite strange kingdom | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in kingdom=Destination | |||
| 7 | delight | the Flower Fairy's palace | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=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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