The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 7
So one day her chariot, drawn by butterflies, was made ready, and the Fairy said: ‘Sylvia, I am going to send you to the court of Iris; she will receive you with pleasure for my sake as well as for your own.
Who acts: Fairy, I · What happens: draw, make, say, go, send, receive · To what, where: chariot, one day, you, court · 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, I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 made | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drawn | punct |
| 7 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 chariot | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 butterflies | case |
| 9 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drawn | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fairy | det |
| 17 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sylvia | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sylvia | punct |
| 21 | Sylvia | Sylvia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 going | vocative |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 going | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 going | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 going | aux |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 said | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 send | mark |
| 27 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 going | xcomp |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 send | iobj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 court | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 court | det |
| 31 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 send | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Iris | case |
| 33 | Iris | Iris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 court | nmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 receive | punct |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 receive | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 receive | aux |
| 37 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | parataxis |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 receive | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 pleasure | case |
| 40 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 receive | obl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 sake | case |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 sake | nmod:poss |
| 43 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 receive | obl |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 43 sake | advmod |
| 45 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 as | fixed |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 as | fixed |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 own | case |
| 48 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 own | nmod:poss |
| 49 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 receive | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | Fairy's chariot not said here | by butterflies | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | one day Fairy's chariot | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | I | Sylvia vocative | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | send | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | the court of Iris | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to court=Destination | |||
| 6 | receive | future | Fairy | you | with pleasure; for my sake; for your own | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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