The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 26
‘And very ill the gift of eloquence becomes a woman,’ replied Sylvia, with an air of conviction.
Who acts: gift, woman · What happens: become, reply, gift · To what, where: 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 (gift, woman), 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 ill | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ill | cc |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 ill | advmod |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 becomes | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gift | det |
| 6 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 becomes | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 eloquence | case |
| 8 | eloquence | eloquence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gift | nmod |
| 9 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 woman | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 woman | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 becomes | ccomp |
| 15 | Sylvia | Sylvia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 air | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Sylvia | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 conviction | case |
| 21 | conviction | conviction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 air | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 becomes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | the gift of eloquence | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | a woman | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | 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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