The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 9

This Fairy was annoyed that after having taken the trouble to come so quickly, there had been no one to receive her, or help her to alight from the great ostrich on which she had travelled from her distant home, and now she began to mutter to herself in the most alarming way.

Who acts: Fairy, most · What happens: be, take, come, receive, help, travell · To what, where: trouble, one, most, great ostrich, alarming way

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 (Fairy, most), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 annoyed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 annoyed	cop
4	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 taken	mark
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 having	mark
7	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 taken	aux
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 annoyed	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trouble	det
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taken	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 come	mark
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 trouble	acl
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 quickly	advmod
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 been	expl
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 been	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 one	cop
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 annoyed	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 receive	mark
22	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 one	acl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 receive	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 help	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 help	cc
26	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 receive	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 help	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 alight	case
29	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 help	xcomp
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 ostrich	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ostrich	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ostrich	amod
33	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 alight	obl
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 travelled	obl
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 travelled	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 travelled	aux
38	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 ostrich	acl:relcl
39	from	from	ADP	_	42 home	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 home	nmod:poss
41	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 home	amod
42	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 travelled	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 began	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 began	cc
45	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 began	advmod
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 began	nsubj
47	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 annoyed	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 mutter	mark
49	mutter	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 began	xcomp
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 herself	case
51	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 mutter	obl
52	in	in	ADP	_	56 way	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 way	det
54	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	55 alarming	advmod
55	alarming	alarming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 way	amod
56	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 mutter	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 annoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this Fairy					annoyed property	tree rules
2	take	gerund · perfect	this Fairy not said here	the trouble					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme
3	come	to-infinitive	this Fairy not said here	the trouble not said here				quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	participle	this Fairy not said here	no one					tree rules
5	receive	to-infinitive	this Fairy not said here	most					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	help	infinitive	this Fairy not said here		most			alight property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
7	travell	past · perfect	most			the great ostrich		from most's distant home	tree rules
8	begin	past	most				now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	mutter speech: assert	to-infinitive	most not said here		most	the alarming way			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient

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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