The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 28
Above all things she loves any assembly for settling the affairs of her kingdom, for on those occasions she can talk and talk without fear of interruption; but, even then, the moment it is over she is ready to begin again about anything or nothing, as the case may be.
Who acts: woman, it, moment · What happens: love, settle, talk, be, begin, fear · To what, where: assembly, things, affairs, occasions, moment, interruption
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 (woman, it, moment), 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 3 things | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 things | det |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 loves | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 loves | nsubj |
| 5 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 assembly | det |
| 7 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loves | obj |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 settling | mark |
| 9 | settling | settle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 loves | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 affairs | det |
| 11 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 settling | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 affairs | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 occasions | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 occasions | case |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 occasions | case |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 occasions | det |
| 19 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 settling | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 talk | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 talk | aux |
| 22 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 occasions | acl:relcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 talk | cc |
| 24 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 talk | conj |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 fear | case |
| 26 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 talk | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 interruption | case |
| 28 | interruption | interruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fear | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 55 be | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 55 be | cc |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 but | punct |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 then | advmod |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 55 be | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 be | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 moment | det |
| 36 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 be | nsubj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 ready | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 ready | cop |
| 39 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 42 ready | mark |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 ready | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 ready | cop |
| 42 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 moment | acl:relcl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 begin | mark |
| 44 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 ready | xcomp |
| 45 | again | again | ADV | _ | 44 begin | advmod |
| 46 | about | about | ADP | _ | 47 anything | case |
| 47 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 44 begin | obl |
| 48 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 nothing | cc |
| 49 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 47 anything | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 case | punct |
| 51 | as | as | ADP | _ | 53 case | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 case | det |
| 53 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 begin | obl |
| 54 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 be | aux |
| 55 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 loves | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | woman | any assembly | all things | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer assembly=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | settle | gerund | woman not said here | the affairs of woman's kingdom | for that occasions | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme affair=Location | |||
| 3 | talk | can | woman | that occasions not said here | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent occasion=Patient | ||||
| 4 | talk | infinitive | woman not said here | without fear of interruption | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | present | it | the moment not said here | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | begin | to-infinitive | again | about anything; as the case | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | be | may | the moment | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | fear | interruption | nom fear «feeling 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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