The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 70
Peter now received a duchy as a present, and became a very great man indeed; but he did not forget the little old woman who had been the cause of all his good fortune, and appointed her as head housekeeper to him and his royal bride in their magnificent castle.
Who acts: Peter, little old woman · What happens: receive, become, not forget, be, appoint · To what, where: duchy, great man, little old woman, cause, woman
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 (Peter, little old woman), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 received | advmod |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 duchy | det |
| 5 | duchy | duchy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 present | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 present | det |
| 8 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 became | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 became | cc |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 great | advmod |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | xcomp |
| 16 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 11 became | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 forget | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 forget | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 forget | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 forget | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 forget | advmod |
| 22 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 received | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 woman | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 woman | amod |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 woman | amod |
| 26 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forget | obj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 cause | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 cause | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 cause | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cause | det |
| 31 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 woman | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 fortune | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 fortune | det:predet |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fortune | amod |
| 36 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cause | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 appointed | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 appointed | cc |
| 39 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | conj |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 appointed | obj |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 housekeeper | case |
| 42 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 housekeeper | compound |
| 43 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 appointed | obl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 housekeeper | nmod |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 bride | cc |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 bride | nmod:poss |
| 48 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 bride | amod |
| 49 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 him | conj |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 castle | case |
| 51 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 castle | nmod:poss |
| 52 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 castle | amod |
| 53 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 bride | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | Peter | a duchy | now | as a present | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duchy=Theme | ||
| 2 | become | past | Peter not said here | a great man | indeed property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | not forget | past · do-support | Peter | the little old woman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | the little old woman | the cause | of Peter's good fortune | tree rules | |||
| 5 | appoint | past | Peter not said here | woman | as head housekeeper to Peter | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme as housekeeper=Attribute |
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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