The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 33

‘I thought at first,’ said Sylvia, ‘that she must be the happiest Princess in the world; she had a thousand lovers who vied with one another in their efforts to please and gratify her.

Who acts: I, Sylvia, thousand lovers · What happens: think, say, be, have, vie, please · To what, where: happiest Princess, world, thousand lovers, one, efforts, Sylvia · 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 (I, Sylvia, thousand lovers), 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	_	3 thought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thought	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
9	Sylvia	Sylvia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Princess	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Princess	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 Princess	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 Princess	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 Princess	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 Princess	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Princess	det
17	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 Princess	amod
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Princess	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Princess	acl:relcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 lovers	det
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 lovers	nummod
27	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 had	obj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 vied	nsubj
29	vied	vie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lovers	acl:relcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 one	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 vied	obj
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 one	fixed
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 efforts	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 efforts	nmod:poss
35	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 vied	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 please	mark
37	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 vied	advcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 gratify	cc
39	gratify	gratify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 please	conj
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 gratify	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Sylvia			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	must	Sylvia	the happiest Princess	the world	tree rules
4	have	past	Sylvia	a thousand lovers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Patient
5	vie	past	a thousand lovers	one	lovers's efforts	tree rules
6	please	to-infinitive	a thousand lovers not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	gratify	infinitive	a thousand lovers not said here	Sylvia		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=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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