The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 3
They came to her when they were quite tiny, and never left her until they were grown up and had to go away into the great world; and when that time came she gave to each whatever gift he asked of her.
Who acts: princes, time, Fairy, he · What happens: come, be, not leave, grow up, have, go away · To what, where: Fairy, princes, great world, gift
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 (princes, time, Fairy, he), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 tiny | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tiny | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tiny | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 tiny | advmod |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 left | cc |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 left | advmod |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 left | obj |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 grown | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grown | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 grown | aux:pass |
| 18 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 left | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 grown | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 grown | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 had | xcomp |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 world | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 world | amod |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 gave | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 gave | cc |
| 31 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 34 came | mark |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 gave | advcl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 gave | nsubj |
| 36 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 gift | case |
| 38 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 gift | det |
| 39 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 40 gift | det |
| 40 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gave | obl |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 asked | nsubj |
| 42 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 gift | acl:relcl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 her | case |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 asked | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | princes = prince | Fairy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | princes = prince | tiny property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not leave | past | princes = prince not said here | Fairy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow up | past · passive | princes = prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | go away | to-infinitive | the great world | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | come | past | that time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | give | past | Fairy | each gift | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to gift=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | ask speech: ask | past | he | each gift not said here | of Fairy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/10/3/