The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 37
The longer I stayed the more I saw that Cynthia was not really happy.
Who acts: I, Cynthia · What happens: stay, see, not be · 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, Cynthia), 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 longer | det |
| 2 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 more | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 happy | mark |
| 10 | Cynthia | Cynthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 happy | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 happy | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 happy | advmod |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 happy | advmod |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | I | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | Cynthia | happy property | tree rules |
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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