The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 50
This lovely gift makes life a constant happiness to its possessor, and to all who are brought into contact with her.
Who acts: lovely gift · What happens: make, bring · To what, where: life, all, contact
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 (lovely gift), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 gift | det |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gift | amod |
| 3 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 happiness | det |
| 7 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 happiness | amod |
| 8 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 possessor | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 possessor | nmod:poss |
| 11 | possessor | possessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happiness | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux:pass |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 makes | parataxis |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 contact | case |
| 20 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 contact | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | this lovely gift | life | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset life=Beneficiary happiness=Product | ||||
| 2 | bring | present · passive | all | contact with Fairy | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into contact=Destination |
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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