The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 38

In her desire to please everyone she ceased to be sincere, and degenerated into a mere coquette; and even her lovers felt that the charms and fascinations which were exercised upon all who approached her without distinction were valueless, so that in the end they ceased to care for them, and went away disdainfully.’

Who acts: lovers, Cynthia, charms · What happens: please, cease, be, degenerate, feel, exercise · To what, where: everyone, mere coquette, charms, Cynthia, end

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 (lovers, Cynthia, charms), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 desire	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 desire	nmod:poss
3	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 felt	obl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 please	mark
5	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 desire	acl
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 please	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ceased	nsubj
8	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 everyone	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 sincere	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 sincere	cop
11	sincere	sincere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ceased	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 degenerated	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 degenerated	cc
14	degenerated	degenerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sincere	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 coquette	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 coquette	det
17	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 coquette	amod
18	coquette	coquette	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 degenerated	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 felt	cc
21	even	even	ADV	_	24 felt	advmod
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 lovers	nmod:poss
23	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 felt	nsubj
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 valueless	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 charms	det
27	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 valueless	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fascinations	cc
29	fascinations	fascination	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 charms	conj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 exercised	nsubj:pass
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 exercised	aux:pass
32	exercised	exercise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 charms	acl:relcl
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 all	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 exercised	obl
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 approached	nsubj
36	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 charms	acl:relcl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 approached	obj
38	without	without	ADP	_	39 distinction	case
39	distinction	distinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 approached	obl
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 valueless	cop
41	valueless	valueless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 felt	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 ceased	punct
43	so	so	SCONJ	_	49 ceased	mark
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 ceased	mark
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 end	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 end	det
47	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 ceased	obl
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 ceased	nsubj
49	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 felt	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 care	mark
51	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 ceased	xcomp
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 them	case
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 care	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 went	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 went	cc
56	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 ceased	conj
57	away	away	ADV	_	56 went	advmod
58	disdainfully	disdainfully	ADV	_	56 went	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
60	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	please	to-infinitive	Cynthia's lovers not said here	everyone				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everyone=Experiencer
2	cease	past	Cynthia					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	to-infinitive	Cynthia not said here				sincere property	tree rules
4	degenerate	participle	Cynthia not said here		a mere coquette			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	feel	past	Cynthia's lovers				in Cynthia's desire	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in desire=Attribute
6	exercise	past · passive		the charms and fascinations			upon all	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	approach	past	the charms and fascinations	Cynthia			without distinction	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
8	is	past	the charms and fascinations				valueless property	tree rules
9	cease	past	charms = charm			in the end		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
10	care	to-infinitive	charms = charm not said here				for charms = charm	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=Theme
11	go away	past	charms = charm not said here				away, disdainfully property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	desire		Cynthia					nom desire «feeling 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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