The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 27

‘It is true that she speaks well, and her expressions are well chosen; but then she never leaves off talking, and though at first one may be amused, one ends by being wearied to death.

Who acts: gift, woman, one · What happens: be, speak, choose, not leave off, talk, amuse · To what, where: expressions, one · 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 (gift, woman, one), 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 true	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 speaks	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 speaks	nsubj
7	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	advcl
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 speaks	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 chosen	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 chosen	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 expressions	nmod:poss
12	expressions	expression	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 chosen	nsubj:pass
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 chosen	aux:pass
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 chosen	advmod
15	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 speaks	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 leaves	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 leaves	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 leaves	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 leaves	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 leaves	advmod
21	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	parataxis
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 leaves	compound:prt
23	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 leaves	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 amused	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 amused	cc
26	though	though	ADV	_	29 one	advmod
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 one	case
28	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 one	advmod
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 amused	nsubj:pass
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 amused	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 amused	aux:pass
32	amused	amuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 leaves	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ends	punct
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 ends	nsubj
35	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 leaves	conj
36	by	by	SCONJ	_	38 wearied	mark
37	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 wearied	aux:pass
38	wearied	weary	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 ends	xcomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 death	case
40	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wearied	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	gift			true property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	present	woman			well property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	choose	present · passive		woman's expressions		well property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not leave off	present	woman		then		tree rules
5	talk	gerund	woman not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	amuse	may · passive		one			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
7	end	present	one				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
8	weary	gerund · passive	one not said here			to death	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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