The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 28
Nature had already made her so pretty, and given her such a ready wit of her own, that she will do perfectly well without me.
Who acts: Saradine · What happens: make, give, do · To what, where: Nature, ready wit, Saradine
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 (Saradine), 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 | Nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 pretty | advmod |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 given | cc |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 made | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 given | obj |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 wit | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wit | det |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wit | amod |
| 15 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 own | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 own | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wit | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 do | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 given | parataxis |
| 24 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 23 do | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 perfectly | fixed |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 do | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | Nature | pretty property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Product | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | such ready wit of Saradine's own | Saradine | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient wit=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | future | Saradine | without me; perfectly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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