The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 45

By degrees I wearied of what had so delighted me at first, especially as I perceived more and more plainly that it is impossible to be constantly smart and amusing without being frequently ill-natured, and too apt to turn all things, even the most serious, into mere occasions for a brilliant jest.’

Who acts: I, degrees · What happens: weary, have, perceive, be, turn · To what, where: degrees, delighted, things

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, degrees), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 degrees	case
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wearied	nsubj
4	wearied	weary	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 degrees	acl:relcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wearied	obl
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 delighted	advmod
9	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 had	obj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 delighted	iobj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 first	case
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 delighted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 perceived	punct
14	especially	especially	ADV	_	17 perceived	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 perceived	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 perceived	nsubj
17	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 plainly	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 more	cc
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 more	conj
21	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	25 impossible	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 impossible	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 impossible	expl
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 impossible	cop
25	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 perceived	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	29 smart	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 smart	cop
28	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	29 smart	advmod
29	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 impossible	csubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 amusing	cc
31	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 smart	conj
32	without	without	SCONJ	_	37 natured	mark
33	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 natured	cop
34	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	37 natured	advmod
35	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 natured	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 ill	punct
37	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 smart	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 apt	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 apt	cc
40	too	too	ADV	_	41 apt	advmod
41	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 impossible	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 turn	mark
43	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	41 apt	csubj
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 things	det
45	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 turn	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 serious	punct
47	even	even	ADV	_	50 serious	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 serious	det
49	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	50 serious	advmod
50	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 turn	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 occasions	punct
52	into	into	ADP	_	54 occasions	case
53	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 occasions	compound
54	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 serious	obl
55	for	for	ADP	_	58 jest	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 jest	det
57	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 jest	amod
58	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 occasions	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
60	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weary	past	I	degrees not said here	of degrees	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus degree=Experiencer
2	have	past	degrees	delighted		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delighted=Patient
3	perceive	past	I		especially property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	I not said here		impossible, plainly property	tree rules
5	is	to-infinitive			constantly, smart property	tree rules
6	be					tree rules
7	is	gerund			frequently, natured property	tree rules
8	be		I not said here			tree rules
9	turn	to-infinitive		all things		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

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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