The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 25
‘Daphne was one of the princesses who asked for the gift of eloquence, if I remember rightly.’
Who acts: Daphne, princesses, I · What happens: be, ask, remember, gift · To what, where: one, eloquence
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 (Daphne, princesses, I), 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 | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 2 | Daphne | Daphne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 princesses | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princesses | det |
| 7 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 princesses | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 gift | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gift | det |
| 12 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 eloquence | case |
| 14 | eloquence | eloquence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gift | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remember | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 remember | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 remember | nsubj |
| 18 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | conj |
| 19 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 18 remember | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Daphne | one | of the princesses | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the princesses | for the gift of eloquence | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | remember a condition, not said to happen | present | I | rightly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | gift | eloquence | 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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