The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 66

‘Sire,’ said Genesta to Farda-Kinbras, ‘I have taken the liberty of appointing your Court as a meeting-place for all the Fairies who could spare the time to come; and I hope you can arrange to hold the great ball, which we have once in a hundred years, on this occasion.’

Who acts: Sire, I, liberty, Fairies, you, we · What happens: say, take, appoint, spare, come, hope · To what, where: Farda, liberty, Court, great ball, occasion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, I, liberty, Fairies), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Genesta	Genesta	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Farda	case
8	Farda	Farda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Kinbras	punct
10	Kinbras	Kinbras	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Farda	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 taken	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 liberty	det
17	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 appointing	mark
19	appointing	appoint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 liberty	acl
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 Court	nmod:poss
21	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 appointing	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	26 place	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 place	det
24	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 place	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 meeting	punct
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 Fairies	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 Fairies	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Fairies	det
30	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 place	nmod
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 spare	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 spare	aux
33	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 Fairies	acl:relcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 time	det
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 spare	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 come	mark
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 time	acl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 hope	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 hope	cc
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 hope	nsubj
41	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 arrange	nsubj
43	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 arrange	aux
44	arrange	arrange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 hope	ccomp
45	to	to	PART	_	46 hold	mark
46	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 arrange	xcomp
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 ball	det
48	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 ball	amod
49	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hold	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 have	punct
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 have	obj
52	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 have	nsubj
53	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 ball	acl:relcl
54	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	53 have	advmod
55	in	in	ADP	_	58 years	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 hundred	det
57	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 years	nummod
58	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 have	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 occasion	punct
60	on	on	ADP	_	62 occasion	case
61	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	62 occasion	det
62	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hold	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
64	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sire		Farda and Kinbras				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to farda=Recipient
2	take	present · perfect	I	the liberty				as a meeting place for all Fairies	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent liberty=Theme as place=Attribute
3	appoint	gerund	the liberty not said here	your Court					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme
4	spare	could	all Fairies				time		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
5	come	to-infinitive	all Fairies not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hope	present	I						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	arrange	can	you						tree rules
8	hold	to-infinitive	you not said here	the great ball		this occasion			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ball=Theme on occasion=Location
9	have	present	we	the great ball			year	once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

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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