The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 151

However, the good Fairy of the Beech-Woods did not want her to be starved, so she sent her an unlooked for relief in the shape of a beautiful white cow, which followed her back to the tiny house.

Who acts: good Fairy, dame, beautiful white cow · What happens: not want, starve, send, follow · To what, where: dame, Fairy

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good Fairy, dame, beautiful white cow), 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	_	13 want	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fairy	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Fairy	amod
5	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 want	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 Woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Woods	det
8	Beech	Beech	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Woods	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Beech	punct
10	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 Fairy	nmod
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 want	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 want	advmod
13	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 want	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 starved	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 starved	aux:pass
17	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 want	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sent	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 sent	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sent	nsubj
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 want	parataxis
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sent	obj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 unlooked	det
24	unlooked	unlooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sent	xcomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 relief	case
26	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 shape	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shape	det
29	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 relief	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 cow	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cow	det
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cow	amod
33	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cow	amod
34	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shape	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 followed	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 followed	nsubj
37	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 cow	acl:relcl
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 followed	obj
39	back	back	ADV	_	37 followed	advmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 house	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 house	det
42	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 house	amod
43	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 back	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	the good Fairy of the Beech Woods	dame	however property	tree rules
2	starve not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	dame not said here			tree rules
3	send	past	dame	Fairy	for relief in the shape of a beautiful white cow; unlooked property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	follow	past	a beautiful white cow	dame		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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