The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 8
First of all I had to make it, for it was all in confusion, and then I had to make one for the Fairy, and tuck her in, and draw the curtains round her, beside rendering her a dozen little services which I was not at all accustomed to.
Who acts: I, task · What happens: have, make, be, tuck in, draw, render · To what, where: task, one, unicorn, curtains, dozen little services, I
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, task), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 First | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 confusion | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 confusion | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 confusion | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 confusion | cop |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 confusion | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 confusion | case |
| 15 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 had | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | xcomp |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Fairy | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Fairy | det |
| 26 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tuck | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tuck | cc |
| 29 | tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | parataxis |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 tuck | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 tuck | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 draw | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 draw | cc |
| 34 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 tuck | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 curtains | det |
| 36 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 draw | obj |
| 37 | round | round | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 draw | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 rendering | punct |
| 40 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 41 rendering | mark |
| 41 | rendering | render | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 draw | advcl |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 rendering | obj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 dozen | det |
| 44 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 services | nummod |
| 45 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 services | amod |
| 46 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 rendering | obj |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 53 accustomed | obj |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 accustomed | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 50 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 53 accustomed | advmod |
| 51 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 53 accustomed | mark |
| 52 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 53 accustomed | nsubj:pass |
| 53 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 services | acl:relcl |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 accustomed | xcomp |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | task | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | past | task | for confusion; all property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | I | then | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | one | for the Fairy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Product for fairy=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | tuck in | infinitive | unicorn | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent she=Destination | |||||
| 7 | draw | infinitive | the curtains | round unicorn | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme | ||||
| 8 | render | gerund | dozen little services | unicorn | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient service=Theme | ||||
| 9 | not accustom | past · passive | I | tree rules |
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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