The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 22
But she had only been there a very little time before a wandering butterfly brought a message from her to the Fairy, begging that she might be sent for as soon as possible, and before very long she was allowed to return.
Who acts: Fairy, wandering butterfly · What happens: have, be, wonder, bring, beg, send · To what, where: message, Fairy · 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 (Fairy, wandering butterfly), 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 | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 there | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 had | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 brought | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 butterfly | det |
| 13 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 butterfly | amod |
| 14 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 message | det |
| 17 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 message | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Fairy | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Fairy | det |
| 22 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 begging | punct |
| 24 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 brought | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 sent | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sent | nsubj |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 sent | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 sent | aux:pass |
| 29 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 begging | ccomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 soon | case |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 soon | advmod |
| 32 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 sent | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 possible | mark |
| 34 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 soon | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 allowed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 allowed | cc |
| 37 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 39 long | mark |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 long | advmod |
| 39 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 allowed | advmod |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 allowed | aux:pass |
| 42 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 return | mark |
| 44 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 allowed | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Fairy | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | bring | past | a wandering butterfly | a message | the Fairy | from Fairy | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to fairy=Destination from she=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | beg speech: request | gerund | a wandering butterfly not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | send | might · passive | Fairy | soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | allow | past · passive | Fairy | long property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fairy not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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