The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 47

But now the time was come for Sylvia to receive her gift, and all her companions were assembled; the Fairy stood in the midst and in the usual manner asked what she would take with her into the great world.

Who acts: Fairy, Sylvia · What happens: come, receive, assemble, stand, ask, take · To what, where: time, gift, companions, midst, usual manner, great world · 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 come	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 come	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux:pass
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 assembled	parataxis
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 Sylvia	case
8	Sylvia	Sylvia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 receive	mark
10	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 gift	nmod:poss
12	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 receive	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 assembled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 assembled	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 companions	det:predet
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 companions	nmod:poss
17	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 assembled	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 assembled	aux:pass
19	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Fairy	det
22	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 assembled	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 midst	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 midst	det
26	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 asked	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 manner	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 manner	det
30	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 manner	amod
31	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 asked	obl
32	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stood	conj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 take	obj
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 take	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 take	aux
36	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 asked	ccomp
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 take	obl
39	into	into	ADP	_	42 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 world	det
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 world	amod
42	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 take	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 assembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · passive		the time		now	for Sylvia	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	receive	to-infinitive		Sylvia's gift				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
3	assemble	past · passive		Sylvia's companions				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	stand	past	the Fairy		the midst			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location
5	ask speech: ask	past	the Fairy not said here		the usual manner			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take	would	Fairy		the great world		with Sylvia	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme into world=Destination
7	gift		Sylvia					nom gift «possession 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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