The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 191
For the Fairy, as a punishment for her avarice, caused it to slip out again as fast as she dropped it in.
Who acts: avarice, cow · What happens: cause, slip out, drop in · To what, where: avarice
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 (avarice, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 Fairy | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 3 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caused | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 punishment | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 punishment | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 punishment | det |
| 7 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Fairy | appos |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 avarice | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 avarice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | avarice | avarice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 punishment | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fairy | punct |
| 12 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 caused | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 slip | mark |
| 15 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 caused | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 slip | compound:prt |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 slip | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 fast | advmod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 slip | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 dropped | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dropped | nsubj |
| 22 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 slip | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dropped | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 dropped | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | avarice | for the Fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slip out | to-infinitive | avarice not said here | again | fast property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | drop in | past | cow | avarice | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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