The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 30
The Fairy smiled at Sylvia’s unfeigned disgust at her late experience; but after allowing her a little time to recover she sent her to the Court of the Princess Cynthia, where she left her for three months.
Who acts: Fairy, Sylvia · What happens: smile, allow, recover, send, leave, disgust · To what, where: unfeigned disgust, Fairy, Sylvia, Court
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 (Fairy, Sylvia), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smiled | nsubj |
| 3 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 disgust | case |
| 5 | Sylvia | Sylvia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 disgust | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Sylvia | case |
| 7 | unfeigned | unfeigned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 disgust | amod |
| 8 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smiled | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 experience | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 experience | nmod:poss |
| 11 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 experience | amod |
| 12 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smiled | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 sent | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 sent | cc |
| 15 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 allowing | mark |
| 16 | allowing | allow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 sent | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 allowing | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 allowing | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 recover | mark |
| 22 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 allowing | advcl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sent | nsubj |
| 24 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smiled | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sent | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Court | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Court | det |
| 28 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Cynthia | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Cynthia | det |
| 31 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Cynthia | compound |
| 32 | Cynthia | Cynthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Court | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 left | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 left | advmod |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 left | nsubj |
| 36 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 Cynthia | acl:relcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 left | obj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 months | case |
| 39 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 months | nummod |
| 40 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 left | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the Fairy | Sylvia's unfeigned disgust | at Fairy's late experience | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | allow | gerund | Fairy not said here | Fairy | time | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | recover | to-infinitive | Fairy not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | send | past | Fairy | Sylvia | the Court of the Princess Cynthia | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to court=Destination | |||
| 5 | leave | past | Fairy | Sylvia | month | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 6 | disgust | Sylvia | nom disgust «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | experience | Fairy | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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