The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 41
However, before very long the Fairy sent her to Phyllida, and waited for her report with unabated interest.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: send, wait, report · To what, where: Fairy, Phyllida
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), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 sent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 Fairy | case |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Fairy | amod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fairy | det |
| 7 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Phyllida | case |
| 11 | Phyllida | Phyllida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 waited | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 waited | cc |
| 14 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 report | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 report | nmod:poss |
| 17 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 waited | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 interest | case |
| 19 | unabated | unabated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 interest | amod |
| 20 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 waited | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Fairy | Phyllida | before the long Fairy | however property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to phyllida=Destination | ||
| 2 | wait | past | for Fairy's report; with unabated interest | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | report | Fairy | nom report «communication 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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