The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 46

And Celandine could not help thinking that it was to her that the Fairy meant to give the two blue wax-torches which burned without ever getting smaller, or the diamond from which more diamonds were continually growing, or the boat that sailed under water, or whatever beautiful or wonderful thing they might happen to be looking at.

Who acts: Celandine, care, Fairy, two blue wax torches, more diamonds, boat · What happens: not help, think, be, mean, give, burn · To what, where: two blue wax torches, water, beautiful thing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Celandine, care, Fairy, two blue wax torches), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 help	cc
2	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 help	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 help	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 her	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 her	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 her	cop
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thinking	ccomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 meant	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fairy	det
14	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meant	nsubj
15	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thinking	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 give	mark
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 meant	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 torches	det
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 torches	nummod
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 torches	amod
21	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 torches	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 wax	punct
23	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 give	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 burned	nsubj
25	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 torches	acl:relcl
26	without	without	SCONJ	_	28 getting	mark
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 getting	advmod
28	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 burned	advcl
29	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 getting	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 diamond	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 diamond	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 diamond	det
33	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obl
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 growing	obl
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 diamonds	amod
37	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 growing	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 growing	aux
39	continually	continually	ADV	_	40 growing	advmod
40	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 diamond	acl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 boat	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 boat	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 boat	det
44	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obl
45	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 sailed	nsubj
46	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 boat	acl:relcl
47	under	under	ADP	_	48 water	case
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sailed	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 whatever	punct
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 whatever	cc
51	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Int	46 sailed	advcl
52	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 thing	amod
53	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 wonderful	cc
54	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 beautiful	conj
55	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 whatever	nsubj
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 happen	nsubj
57	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 happen	aux
58	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 thing	acl:relcl
59	to	to	PART	_	61 looking	mark
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 looking	aux
61	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 happen	advcl
62	at	at	ADP	_	61 looking	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	could	Celandine					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	think speech: other not said to happen	gerund	Celandine not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	care				to Fairy	tree rules
4	mean	past	the Fairy					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Fairy not said here	the two blue wax torches			the diamond obl; the boat obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Theme
6	burn	past	the two blue wax torches					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	get	gerund	the two blue wax torches not said here			ever	small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	grow	past · progressive	more diamonds				from the diamond; continually property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from which=Patient
9	sail	past	the boat		water			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
10	happen	might	things = thing	beautiful thing not said here				tree rules
11	look	to-infinitive · progressive	things = thing not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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