The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 32

The Fairy, as usual, was anxious to hear what she thought of Cynthia, who had always been amiable, and to whom she had given the gift of pleasing.

Who acts: Fairy, Cynthia, gift · What happens: be, hear, think, give, please · To what, where: 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 (Fairy, Cynthia, gift), 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	8 anxious	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 usual	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 usual	case
5	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Fairy	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fairy	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 anxious	cop
8	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hear	mark
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 anxious	xcomp
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 hear	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 what	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Cynthia	case
15	Cynthia	Cynthia	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 thought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 amiable	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 amiable	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 amiable	aux
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 amiable	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 amiable	cop
21	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Cynthia	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 whom	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 whom	cc
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 anxious	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 given	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 given	aux
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 whom	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 gift	det
30	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	obj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 pleasing	mark
32	pleasing	please	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 gift	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Fairy		anxious property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	the Fairy not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	past	Fairy		of Cynthia	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past · perfect	Cynthia		always, amiable property	tree rules
5	give	past · perfect	Fairy	the gift		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
6	please	gerund	the gift not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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