The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 42

‘I reached her court safely,’ said Sylvia, ‘and she received me with much kindness, and immediately began to exercise upon me that brilliant wit which you had bestowed upon her.

Who acts: I, Sylvia · What happens: reach, say, receive, begin, exercise, bestow · To what, where: court, me, brilliant wit · 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), 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 reached	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 court	nmod:poss
5	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	safely	safely	ADV	_	3 reached	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Sylvia	Sylvia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Sylvia	punct
12	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	15 received	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 received	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 received	nsubj
15	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 received	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 kindness	case
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 kindness	amod
19	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 received	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
22	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	23 began	advmod
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 received	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 exercise	mark
25	exercise	exercise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 exercise	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 bestowed	mark
29	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wit	amod
30	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bestowed	nsubj:pass
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 bestowed	nsubj:pass
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 bestowed	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 bestowed	aux
34	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 exercise	advcl
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 bestowed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	I	Fairy's court	safely property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent court=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Sylvia			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	receive	past	Sylvia	me	with much kindness	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	begin	past	Sylvia not said here		immediately property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	exercise	to-infinitive	Sylvia not said here		upon me	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bestow	past · perfect · passive		brilliant wit	upon Fairy	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/10/42/