The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 60
In vain did the gazelle represent to him that she was enjoying herself very much, and that this was the easiest mode of conveyance she had ever discovered.
Who acts: gazelle, water, this · What happens: represent, enjoy, be, discover · To what, where: advice, water, easiest mode, conveyance
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gazelle, water, this), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 represent | obl |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 represent | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gazelle | det |
| 5 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 represent | nsubj |
| 6 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 represent | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 enjoying | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 enjoying | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 enjoying | aux |
| 12 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 represent | advcl |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 enjoying | obj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 enjoying | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mode | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mode | cc |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 mode | mark |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 mode | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 mode | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mode | det |
| 22 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 mode | amod |
| 23 | mode | mode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enjoying | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 conveyance | case |
| 25 | conveyance | conveyance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mode | nmod |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 discovered | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 discovered | aux |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 discovered | advmod |
| 29 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 conveyance | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 represent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | past · do-support | the gazelle | advice | in vain | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in vain=Attribute | |||
| 2 | enjoy | past · progressive | water | water | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | the easiest mode | of conveyance | tree rules | |||
| 4 | discover | past · perfect | water | conveyance not said here | ever | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conveyance=Topic |
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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