The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 49

The old Fairy was not at all pleased with the way he had been going on for some time, but her heart was so soft towards him that she was unwilling to take him away from the pleasures he loved, except by offering him something better, which is not the most effectual mode of correction, though it is without doubt the most agreeable.

Who acts: old Fairy, Featherhead, heart, Fairy · What happens: not be, go on, be, unwill, take away, love · To what, where: all, way, Featherhead, pleasures, something, effectual mode

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 (old Fairy, Featherhead, heart, Fairy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Fairy	amod
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pleased	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pleased	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 pleased	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 pleased	obl
8	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pleased	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 way	acl:relcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 going	compound:prt
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 soft	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 soft	cc
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heart	nmod:poss
23	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 soft	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 soft	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 soft	advmod
26	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pleased	conj
27	towards	towards	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 soft	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 unwilling	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 unwilling	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 unwilling	aux
32	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 soft	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 take	mark
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 unwilling	xcomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 take	obj
36	away	away	ADV	_	34 take	advmod
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 pleasures	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pleasures	det
39	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 take	obl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 loved	nsubj
41	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 pleasures	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 offering	punct
43	except	except	ADP	_	45 offering	mark
44	by	by	SCONJ	_	45 offering	mark
45	offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 unwilling	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 offering	obj
47	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	45 offering	obj
48	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 something	amod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 mode	punct
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 mode	nsubj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 mode	cop
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 mode	advmod
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 mode	det
54	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	55 effectual	advmod
55	effectual	effectual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 mode	amod
56	mode	mode	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 something	appos
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 correction	case
58	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 mode	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 doubt	punct
60	though	though	SCONJ	_	64 doubt	mark
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 doubt	nsubj
62	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 doubt	cop
63	without	without	ADP	_	64 doubt	case
64	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 offering	obl
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 agreeable	det
66	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	67 agreeable	advmod
67	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 doubt	amod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the old Fairy			all		with the way; pleased property	tree rules
2	go on	past · perfect · progressive	Featherhead	the way not said here			time		tree rules
3	is	past	Fairy's heart					towards Featherhead; soft property	tree rules
4	unwill	past · progressive	Fairy						tree rules
5	take away	to-infinitive	Fairy not said here	Featherhead		the pleasures		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme from pleasure=Initial_Location
6	love	past	Featherhead	the pleasures not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pleasure=Stimulus
7	offer	gerund	Fairy not said here	something	Featherhead				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal something=Theme
8	not is a	present		the effectual mode				of correction	tree rules
9	is	present	heart					without doubt	tree rules

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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