The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 12

No doubt she would have gone on longer in this strain, and given the unhappy little Prince half-a-dozen undesirable gifts, if it had not been for the good Fairy Genesta, who held the kingdom under her special protection, and who luckily hurried in just in time to prevent further mischief.

Who acts: doubt, little Prince, strain, good Fairy · What happens: go on, give, gift, not be, hold, hurry · To what, where: kingdom, special protection, further mischief

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, little Prince, strain, good 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 doubt	det
2	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADV	_	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 gone	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 strain	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 strain	det
11	strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 longer	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 given	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 given	cc
14	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 gone	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 gifts	det
16	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gifts	amod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Prince	amod
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 gifts	nsubj
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 gifts	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 dozen	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dozen	det
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 dozen	punct
23	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 gifts	nummod
24	undesirable	undesirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gifts	amod
25	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 given	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Fairy	punct
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 Fairy	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 Fairy	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 Fairy	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 Fairy	advmod
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 Fairy	cop
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 Fairy	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Fairy	det
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Fairy	amod
35	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 given	parataxis
36	Genesta	Genesta	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Fairy	flat
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 held	punct
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 held	nsubj
39	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 Fairy	parataxis
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 kingdom	det
41	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 held	obj
42	under	under	ADP	_	45 protection	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 protection	nmod:poss
44	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 protection	amod
45	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 held	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 hurried	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 hurried	cc
48	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 hurried	nsubj
49	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	50 hurried	advmod
50	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 held	conj
51	in	in	ADP	_	54 time	case
52	just	just	ADV	_	54 time	advmod
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 time	case
54	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hurried	obl
55	to	to	PART	_	56 prevent	mark
56	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 time	acl
57	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 mischief	amod
58	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 prevent	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	would · perfect	no doubt				long property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	participle	no doubt not said here					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	gift		little Prince					tree rules
4	not is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	strain				for the good Fairy	tree rules
5	hold	past	the good Fairy	the kingdom	doubt's special protection			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme under protection=Location
6	hurry	participle				time	luckily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	prevent	to-infinitive		further mischief				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer mischief=Theme
8	protect		doubt					nom protection «act transitive»: poss=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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