The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 46
The Fairy in her heart agreed with Sylvia’s conclusions, and felt pleased with herself for having brought her up so well.
Who acts: Fairy, Sylvia · What happens: agree, feel, bring up, conclude · To what, where: Fairy
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 heart | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fairy | nmod |
| 6 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 conclusions | case |
| 8 | Sylvia | Sylvia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 conclusions | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Sylvia | case |
| 10 | conclusions | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 agreed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 felt | cc |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 agreed | conj |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 herself | case |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 felt | obl |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 brought | mark |
| 18 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 brought | aux |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 felt | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 brought | compound:prt |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 well | advmod |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 brought | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Fairy in Fairy's heart | with Sylvia's conclusions | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with conclusion=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the Fairy in Fairy's heart not said here | with Fairy; pleased property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bring up | gerund · perfect | the Fairy in Fairy's heart not said here | Fairy | well property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 4 | conclude | Sylvia | nom conclusion «cognition 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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