The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 6
However, the Fairy had a great wish to know how the other princesses who had grown up and left her, were prospering, and before the time came for Sylvia to go herself, she resolved to send her to some of them.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: have, know, grow up, leave, prosper, come · To what, where: great wish, other princesses, Fairy, some · 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), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fairy | det |
| 4 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wish | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wish | amod |
| 8 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 know | mark |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | advcl |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 grown | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princesses | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 princesses | amod |
| 14 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 grown | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 grown | aux |
| 17 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 know | ccomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 grown | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 prospering | punct |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 prospering | aux |
| 24 | prospering | prosper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 left | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 came | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 came | cc |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 came | obl |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 Sylvia | case |
| 32 | Sylvia | Sylvia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 came | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 came | advcl |
| 35 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 go | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 resolved | punct |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 resolved | nsubj |
| 38 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 send | mark |
| 40 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 resolved | xcomp |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 send | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 some | case |
| 43 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 send | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 them | case |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 some | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Fairy | a great wish | however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | |||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | the Fairy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | grow up | past · perfect · passive | the other princesses | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | the Fairy not said here | Fairy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | prosper | past · progressive | the Fairy not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come | past | the Fairy not said here | time | for Sylvia | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | the Fairy not said here | Fairy | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Theme | ||||
| 8 | resolve | past | Fairy | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | send | to-infinitive | Fairy not said here | Fairy | some | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to some=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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