The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 12

The old woman, who guessed his thoughts, laughed kindly and said, ‘I’ll tell you what you must do, for I’ve taken a fancy to you, and I’m sure you won’t forget me when you’ve made your fortune.’

Who acts: old woman, I, you, Peter · What happens: guess, laugh, say, tell, do, take · To what, where: thoughts, you, fancy, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, I, you, Peter), 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 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laughed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 guessed	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 guessed	nsubj
6	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 woman	acl:relcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 thoughts	nmod:poss
8	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 guessed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	10 laughed	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laughed	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
17	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 do	obj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 do	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tell	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 taken	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 taken	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 taken	nsubj
27	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 taken	aux
28	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 tell	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fancy	det
30	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taken	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 taken	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 ’m	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ’m	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 ’m	nsubj
36	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 laughed	parataxis
37	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ’m	xcomp
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 forget	nsubj
39	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 forget	aux
40	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 forget	advmod
41	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 sure	ccomp
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 forget	obj
43	when	when	SCONJ	_	46 made	mark
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 made	nsubj
45	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 made	aux:pass
46	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 forget	advcl
47	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 fortune	nmod:poss
48	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 made	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 laughed	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	guess	past	the old woman	Peter's thoughts			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme
2	laugh	past	the old woman			kindly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the old woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	future	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	do	must	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	take	present · perfect	I	a fancy	you		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to you=Destination
7	be	present	I			sure property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	not forget	future	you	me			tree rules
9	make	present · passive		you			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary fortune=Product
10	think		Peter				nom thought «cognition 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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