The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 5
The Fairy loved her with all her heart, for she was at once original and gentle, and she had nearly reached the age at which the gifts were generally bestowed.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: love, be, reach, bestow · To what, where: Sylvia, age, gifts
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loved | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 heart | det:predet |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 original | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 original | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 original | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 original | cop |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 original | obl |
| 15 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loved | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gentle | cc |
| 17 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 original | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reached | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 reached | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 reached | aux |
| 22 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 23 reached | advmod |
| 23 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 loved | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 age | det |
| 25 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reached | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 bestowed | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gifts | det |
| 29 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bestowed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 bestowed | aux:pass |
| 31 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 32 bestowed | advmod |
| 32 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 age | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the Fairy | Sylvia | with Fairy's heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | Fairy | original property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Fairy not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | reach | past · perfect | Fairy | the age | nearly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent age=Theme | |||
| 5 | bestow | past · passive | the gifts | at the age | generally property | 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.
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